Concert Review/Photos: Mitski @ PhilaMOCA 7/15
Please note: This article is published as an archive copy from Philadelphia City Paper. My City Paper is not affiliated with Philadelphia City Paper. Philadelphia City Paper was an alternative weekly newspaper in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The last edition was published on October 8, 2015.
The crowd stood silent and stock still in reverence.
Delivering introspective bombast with the ease and nuance of a performer many years her senior, Mitski dazzled a sold-out PhilaMOCA last Wednesday. With her 2014 album Bury Me at Makeout Creek as the main platform to launch her vocals and bass lines, Mitski is a heady mix of post punk, with drums and guitar woven in for good measure. Songs like “Jerusalem” and “I Don’t Smoke” echoed through the crowd which stood silent and stock still in reverence. And the one-two punch of the solo finale of “Class of 2013” and “Last Words of a Shooting Star” are quite impressive to behold, especially the former where Mitski sings directly into her guitar.
Eskimeaux, with their folk musings, and Elvis Depressedly, who are less irony and more new millennial rock, were engaging openers.
