[ATTENDED: November 11, 2021] Miloe
When my kids were little I was always driving around to some activity or another. Well, how psyched was I to be able to drive one kids to a concert last night and another kids to a concert tonight? And both were for bands I like, too!
I didn’t know Miloe, and they were a little hard to get details about because the band is so young. Miloe is the brainchild of 20 year old Congolese immigrant Bobby Kabeya.
He put out an EP called Greenhouse during the pandemic and has had a few other songs percolating for a while.
Bobby was a great frontman. He told us that these shows were the first time he’s played in clubs–his previous touring experience was house parties. Obviously this was his first time away from Minneapolis, too.
Miloe’s record is full of laid back, breezy indie pop with pretty guitar melodies and delicate vocals delicately delivered over songs “influenced by Congolese rumba, reggae and African folk sounds.”
Bobby was quick to smile and marvel at where he was. But he was also quick to totally rock out.
Most of the songs had a soft shimmering guitar sound. Interlocking guitar lines from the two guitars fleshed out the sound. But a song like “Yellow” started out quietly, like a sweet summer song complete with some “la las” and then it just crashed away into a satisfying noisy conclusion, with both guitarists going nuts.
The one thing that made me laugh was that Bobby’s bassist was easily a foot taller than him, so when they stood next to each other it was quite dramatic.
I found out this fun tidbit. He wrote his song “Winona” about Winona Ryder. But, and here’s the fun twist, he discovered her through Stranger Things, not one of her Gen X projects. The song is about how a friend of his looks like her.
I didn’t catch all of the songs he played, but I know he played “Winona,” “Yellow” and “Motorola.”
I really enjoyed his set.
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