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Concert Tue Jan 17 2012
Review: Active Child & Tycho @ Lincoln Hall 1/12/12
On Thursday night Active Child and Tycho played at Lincoln Hall as part of the Tomorrow Never Knows festival. Both acts performed sets of hazy electronic music that fit the growing winter wonderland outside.
Active Child (photo by Andy Keil)
Active Child quickly filled the air with a characteristically exceptional set of modern chamber pop. Singer Pat Grossi's celestial voice soared over the accompanying classically tinged sun warped electronic pop. For an hour Lincoln Hall fell into natures hidden web and was transported to an elaborate Elven courtship ritual. Active Child performed almost the entirety of their recently re-released debut album You Are All I See to a receptive crowd.
Tycho (photo by Andy Keil)
By the time Tycho and his band took the stage the audience was overflowing with expectations. Leading his band Scott Hansen answered the question of what Pink Floyd would have sounded like if they grew up in a deep space exploration vessel stocked with PBS Nova specials. During the set of 10,000 leagues deep psychedelic techno Tycho projected visuals of adventure time. Not the colorful show but a travelogue of scientists to swim with whales and discover new behaviors of penguins. The audiences collective mind was opened up to an age of wonder ushered in by the entirety of Tychos new album Drive.
Earl Weaver / January 17, 2012 11:28 AM
Worst review ever. Nonsense.