[DID NOT ATTEND: April 15, 2025] Tomato Flower / Zero Point Energy / Flock Econo
I saw Tomato Flower open for Melt-Banana. I didn’t know who they were but I loved them from the start. Their songs were jagged and indie, weird and delightful. They reminded me of Palm (one of my favorite weirdo bands) for the unexpected shifts in tempo and direction. They had two singers Jamison Murphy and Austyn Wohlers (who is also a novelist) to make it all the more unexpected.
I absolutely wanted to see them again. I couldn’t believe there were actually five shows I wanted to go to tonight. But this one topped the list, especially since Silk City is small and has decent sight lines.
But my wife was still recovering from her surgery and I was planning on taking my daughter to a show the following night so I stayed home and missed them all. I hope Tomato Flower comes back.
But, damn. What bad timing. I do hope they come back again in a couple of years.
Zero Point Energy is a Brooklyn-based duo consisting of Genesis Edenfield and Ben Jackson with a sound described as earthy electronic dance. That’s a bio phrase but it works. They seem weirdly divergent from Tomato Flower, but there’s nothing wrong with that. I don’t know what they’d do live, but I did like the songs I listened to.
Flock Econo is from Philadelphia. Matt Loretti is Flock Econo and he says “Flock Econo emerges from an alternate timeline scored by Musica Popular Brasileira and ‘80s sophisti-pop. Sprung from his hermetically sealed chamber, a fool croons over bubbling syncopation and harmonies which meander, serpentine, before finding their way home.” The songs I listened to were lo-fi and again don’t really seem like they’d play with Tomato Flower. But who knows.
Either way, I’d love to see Tomato Flower again.
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