What makes a present enjoyable for you? Is it the fun of seeing the headliner carry out their set? Perhaps it’s the openers you’ve heard nice issues about—or the truth that it’s taking place at a cool venue you’ve been wanting to take a look at.
The DEADBEATS present—offered by Columbia Information and Spotify on Friday, October 17—delivered on each degree. The occasion spotlighted Tame Impala (aka DJ Loser) and his new fifth studio album DEADBEATS, that includes performances from SEEESOOOOO, Yaeji, DJ Loser, and The Dare. The present celebrated each the brand new album and the followers who’ve supported Tame Impala alongside the way in which.
The situation? Simply one of many coolest spots to host a present—Pier 4 on the Brooklyn Military Terminal Annex Constructing.
Image dancing to DJ units surrounded by water, with panoramic views of Manhattan and the Statue of Liberty. It was surreal—watching the sundown whereas these unbelievable acts DJed, layering beats and textures that felt each acquainted and fully new.
Pictured: Yaeji
Highlights from the evening included Yaeji, who blended Alicia Keys’ “Feeling U, Feeling Me” right into a glitchy, Caribbean-inspired groove that had the group cheering and dancing. The Dare later closed out the night together with a reimagined model of Marie Davidson’s “Work It,” amping up the heart beat and leaving the group buzzing.
However the centerpiece of the evening got here earlier, throughout Tame Impala’s (DJ Loser’s) set—a efficiency that started, and ended, as effortlessly because it flowed.
Pictured: Tame Impala/DJ Loser
Tame kicked issues off with an informal “What’s up?” earlier than diving right into a seamless mixture of tracks from the brand new album, looping in pulsing beats and playful pauses that saved the group on edge, prepared to maneuver. You would inform he was having simply as a lot enjoyable as everybody packed behind the DJ desk.
It undoubtedly makes you marvel which kind of efficiency he prefers—the one the place he’s on stage as Tame Impala, singing his catalog all evening, or nights like this, the place he will get to transform these tracks with new sonic power in opposition to a backdrop of sea and the New York Metropolis skyline.
It was an evening that introduced music lovers collectively in opposition to a wide ranging backdrop, one which made you pause and really feel grateful that occasions like this even exist.
Brooklyn, NY—the place creativity by no means clocks out—was the proper place to expertise it.
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