[ATTENDED: February 18, 2022] Poise
Poise is the creation of Lucie Murphy. She has released an EP and an LP and the songs on them are quite varied. She’s a got a few short rockers with great riffs and a few mellow, more brooding pieces.
They were a four piece for this show with Marguax on bass, Theo Munger on drums and Sam Skinner (from Pinegrove) on lead guitar.
They cam out with a short rocker. Murphy’s voice is pretty great–she can hit some really high notes, but mostly she’s got a lot of power. I really enjoyed the second song “Nothing You Can Say” with a super catchy riff.
She mellowed things out for a song and then allowed Skinner to make some really cool feedbacking squalls during the song with the otherwise quiet chorus of “Let me break your heart.”
Munger spoke more than Murphy, making some amusing if not corny jokes while everyone was tuning. There was a moment when Lucie took a swig of water and Munger said, “let’s hear it for water” which everyone applauded. Later, he made a similar joke when more water was had This water joke actually lasted through the whole night and it seems very likely that the other two bands had no idea why.
The screaming guitar of “Walked Through Fire” was followed by the mid tempo “Show Me Your Love.” After a mellow song, Lucie put down the guitar and sang the gentle ballad “Vestige.” Then she picked up the guitar once more and rocked out one last song.
She said the songs were all from her new album, but I could only figure out the ones whose names I listed.
I enjoyed her set quite a bit and would have gotten the record, but it was only available as cassette (booo). You can hear it on bandcamp too.
Setlist
- unknown
- Nothing You Can Say
- unknown “what you came up with was the weirdest shit”
- unknown “let me break your heart”
- Walked Through Fire
- Show Me Your Love
- unknown “strong woman … what can I tell you what can you learn”
- Vestige
- unknown “no one gets me … putting on a show for you”
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