Concert Review: The Ballroom Thieves Steal Brooklyn

The Ballroom thieves were instantly attractive to me. First, I am 100% predicting a rise in woman- man duos in the next few years. Second, you just can’t fail with mellow depression. Watching them at Baby’s All Right, I could not help but recall the duets of Damien Rice and Lisa Hannigan. 

If you do not know the latter two, please look up their songs together. They are few, but they are so good, till this day, fans ask them to unite and become a formal group. They were majestic in their ability to folkishly chord how adulthood is so confusing, even traitorous because we all really grow up thinking it will be better than childhood.  The Ballroom Thieves feel like that thematic union, and sing to the felt betrayal of being a “grown child,” aka an adult, and not know how to heal from the fact that “adulting” is not that exciting. 

I, recently, had seen The Whale when I journeyed to The Ballroom Theives’ show, and a line “I need to accept that my life will not be so exciting” stood out from the movie. Playing off their newest albums, Clouds, their songs felt like intimate peeks into the realizations that our emotions, often, are bigger than our situations. To be honest, life can be pretty chill, but how “okay” we are with its sameness and smallness is what challenges our relationships. Luckily, for the witty sibling duo, their ease with each other and harmony was the ideal relation. 

The crowd was mesmerized by them because they felt like a breath of fresh air compared to their songs dreamy, lyrical breathlessness. It is as if they were oxygen singing to carbon dioxide, and the juxtaposition worked because it exemplified our veils. Most of us are funny, good people that mask how down we get because life has to be more than that. Perhaps, that is why we loop over thoughts and their songs….. we know we can be more than our smallness… or all east feel more. For More Information On The Ballroom Thieves Click Here.