[ATTENDED: May 11, 2022] Wetface
Wetface is the one-man-band project of Montreal based songwriter Jordan Minkoff. He writes and plays on a mid 80’s Yamaha organ, douses “bright and ambitiously crafted pop music with layers of wonky digital strings and orchestration.” That’s according to his label.
According to me he is a tedious, goofy in a bad way singer who is very good at playing the keyboard. There didn’t seem to be anything ambitious about his songs which were very far from pop. He sang often in a crazy falsetto. It’s possible he was making things up as he went along. The sound (’80s Yamaha) was so cheesy most of the time that I had to assume he was joking, but that the joke just wasn’t all that funny because the sound was so pervasive.
I wanted to see if I was alone in really disliking this set. I see that the reviewer from White Eagle Hall (the show I had tickets to two nights later but which I did not go to) loved him. Thought he was hilarious both in his song craft and his banter.
Turns out that Jordan Minkoff created some of Built to Spill’s recent videos and Doug Martsch is a big fan (he also really liked Daniel Johnston, so…). Martsch called Wetface up on stage to sing with them in Jersey City. Maybe that would have made me like him more. But honestly I couldn’t wait for his set to be over.
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