“For sophomore Get Awkward, BYOP pivoted to Sixties girl-group sophistication and leather-jacket-clad art rock riffs. Even slightly more polished, their appetite for the unruly remained. Throughout their four-year run, the singer and bandmates – guitarist Jonas Stein, bassist Nathan Vasquez, and drummer John Eatherly – garnered critical acclaim from almost every major music publication, before even turning 21″
“The set, which touched on favorites from each of his four studio albums, clocked in at about an hour and a half, normally too slight to be satisfactory, but it worked with DeMarco’s rapid-fire pacing. And a quick scan of the audience as they filed out showed that they heeded his call. Relaxed? Check. Enjoyed themselves? Double check. And you get the feeling DeMarco did the same…”
Given the large crowd’s reaction, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard picked up more than a few new fans with its hair-whipping garage psych.
Of every band playing Fun Fun Fun Fest this weekend, Thee Oh Sees will be the one that I love unconditionally, but will not understand. It’s the generation gap in action.
