[DID NOT ATTEND: December 14, 2022] Foals / Inner Wave / Glove
Back in 2008, Foals were a weird indie rock band. Cryptic, with odd instrumental passages. By their third album, Holy Fire, they had ditched all of that for huge bombast. But it was still great, “Inhaler” was my favorite song of the year, getting bigger and bigger until it somehow exploded.
I kind of forgot about them, and then heard that they were releasing a two part epic: Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost.
In 2022, they released their most recent album, Life is Yours, recording now as a trio. I actually hadn’t heard anything from the album.
I had tickets to see the Lemonheads that night. And I really wanted to see them, so Foals would have to wait until next time.
Although now that I check the setlist, I think that Foals show might have been the better bet. Maybe.
Inner Wave was going to open for Chicano Batman when I saw them in 2020, but when the show was rescheduled, there was a new opening band.
Inner Wave is a five-piece ensemble, and three of the bandmates – lead vocalist and guitarist Pablo Sotelo, bassist and vocalist Jean Pierre Narvaez, and guitarist and keyboard player Elijah Trujillo – go all the way back to middle school. Some back-in-the-day homies left the band in 2016, and keyboardist Chris Runners and drummer Luis Portillo joined the group. [They are] an indie rock quintet who seamlessly float between psychedelic and synthwave sounds.
I can see them opening for Chicano Batman with their retro sounds and soft vocals. I don’t exactly see it working with Foals.
Glove opened for A Place to Bury Strangers, a show I did not go to. Glove is a retro synth band, in the vein of Depeche Mode or New Order. They’re from Tampa but look like they are straight out of the 80’s UK music scene.
I don’t quite see them opening for Foals either, unless the new Foals music is a lot more synthy.
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