[ATTENDED: October 22, 2022] Leah Senior [rescheduled from May 22 and then October 22, 2020 and again on October 23, 2021]
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard created a record label (Flightless) and they released Leah Senior’s latest album.
I had listened to Leah Senior when it was first announced that she was going to open for them on the tour. I think her new album wasn’t out yet, because I found what I heard to be fine, decent folk music.
Or as NME says:
Her first two albums, 2015’s ‘Summer’s On The Ground’ and 2017’s ‘Pretty Faces’, are sparsely arranged folk records – usually just Senior and her guitar, maybe a bit of piano – with songs she says were often born from anguish. But on ‘The Passing Scene’, Senior moves away from the sounds of early Joni Mitchell to something echoing the late-’60s, jazzy, jam-band sound of Karen Dalton’s ‘In My Own Time’. Senior says she approached recording with a sense of playfulness for the first time.
Because live, these songs were delightful! Fun and bouncey with a fantastic band and, the killer ingredient: backing vocals by her sister, Andi. Together the two of them sang beautiful harmonies.
I expected to like her set, but I was enchanted by it. By her voice, by the way her band fleshed out these songs and by the overall vibe she generated. She played guitar for the first few songs and then switched to piano/keyboards for the rest.
I was less enchanted by the loud dude near me who felt compelled to talk a lot about which King Gizzard albums he had and how much he hated baseball and how mean the Aussies were during the lockdown. Fortunately, the person he was talking to moved away from him and he was left talking to no one and we all enjoyed the last few Leah Senior songs ever the more.
I couldn’t see her all that well–a wall of KGATLW fans were in my way, but her voice soared over any obstacles.
Markit Aneight has a video of the whole show
- Time Traveller §
- Daisy
- Graves §
- Pony [new]
- Ocean Quilt Lady §
- There’s No Fish §
- Where Am I
- Love Outlast My Heart ♥
- Evergreen §
- Bug in a Bath §
§ Passing Scene
♥ from Love Hurts compilation
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