10.27.17 - Wildermiss with The Bright Silence and The Solid Ocean - Larimer Lounge - Denver, CO
Wildermiss had their Lost With You EP release show tonight! And they brought along with them some great acts all dressed in costume for Halloween
Up first was The Solid Ocean, their website says they’re power pop and i think that’s a pretty good description. A set of fun, upbeat, dance-able music ripe with catchy lyrics and slick guitar riffs.
While Joey Lowery was introducing the band he joked about not what would happen if you gave Nathan Johnson on keys a glass of water.
Towards the end of their set, Joey Lowery said we’re gonna jam out a little bit and each member got a chance to stretch their muscles. No doubt I’ll stumble across them again in the future, and I look forward to it.
“Welcome to the Scarimer Lounge!” as lead Kevin Johnston from The Bright Silence kicked off their set, with a bit that wasn’t practiced... “but the rest of the set definitely was”
One of my highlights from UMS, I was really excited to see them again. They kicked off with “Oleana” as they did at UMS and went rapid fire through songs just like it was a UMS show (I just typed UMS a lot) what set this set apart was Kevin’s interaction with the crowd. Beginning with his punderful intro and periodically talking in a spoooooky voice.
They wrapped up with a cover of Oingo Boingo’s “Dead Man’s Party” talking to Kevin afterward he mentioned that it’s a difficult song to play, in that the meter of the song changes throughout, but you wouldn’t have known it, they killed it! You can watch it (with even more puns!) Here!
It’s been a lot of fun to see Wildermiss throughout the year starting back in February and in April, and how they’ve added little flourishes and refined songs along the way. Most notably in the extended intro to “Keep It Simple”
There’s one song they perform and I wish I knew the name of it and how to describe it better but first heard back in Feb (I don’t remember if they played in in April) but Emma hits a note and then the reverb she activates elevates the note. I remember the first time I heard that song performed I thought to myself “Hotdamn this is good shit”
For their encore they performed (another song I don’t know the same of, sorry) where Emma loops her voice and then they perform along with it. It was a great song to end the night with.
They were kind enough to sign the EP, I was surprised to find that as part of the mentioned first 100 we’d get an extra treat, and it turned out to be a “Polaroid” that they had already signed!
It was Awesome!