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Pat Brown from Sing It Loud
You know when you go to a concert and what you get sounds alarmingly like the album you sing along to in the car? No differentiation, no surprises, no excitement? Well this was not that show. Sing It Loud is a live band. Their live show will blow you away before you even give yourself the chance to memorize every song. That’s exactly what happened at Sonar Saturday November 7. Sing It Loud filled their set with several tracks from their highly anticipated upcoming album along with a few old favorites.
The vague term “over-produced” gets tossed around when referring to Sing It Loud’s full-length album, 2008's “Come Around” and their two previous EP’s. The term is non-specific and often used to refer to an album with a very “clean” studio sound. It has become a very negative phrase over the last few years and therefore not a fair representation of Sing It Loud’s recorded music. Their recorded music does have a clean studio sound but it can hardly be described as bad. There are just some things that will just not translate to a recorded album such as the raw rock sound and intoxicating energy that makes bands like Sing It Loud so amazing to see in person. So short of doing a live album, Sing It Loud may be consistently stuck with that unfortunate and very over-used stigma.
Before being so quick to judge Sing It Loud, do yourself a favor and see one of their shows. Bring a set of earplugs so you can really listen to the music and experience the performance (earplugs reduce decibels which only improves sound at shows by almost completely reducing crowd noise and reverb). Bandmates Pat Brown (lead vocals, guitar), Nate Flynn (bass), Ben Peterson (keyboard, synthesizer), Kieren Smith (guitar, backing vocals), and Christopher “Sick Boy” Lee (drums) work like a well-oiled machine. They give a real rock show where they’re not worried about scripted banter or keeping their hair in place, they’re just trying to give a set full of quality live music. Hair’s flipping, sweat’s pouring, and if it weren’t for their regular crowd encouragement you’d wonder if they had forgotten they were performing for a crowd at all. They just get so lost in every song it makes it very clear they love playing it as much as if not more than fans enjoy hearing it.
The Cheap Date Tour featuring Forever The Sickest Kids, The Rocket Summer, Viriginia-based band My Favorite Highway, and Down With Webster as well as Sing It Loud will be close to Baltimore again when it stops at the Trocadero in Philadelphia on Saturday, November 14.
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