New style of concert article–I haven’t been to the show yet, but I AM going to it tonight! Yves Tumor at the Vogue Theatre downtown, very exciting! I missed them last year so I’m excited that I get a chance to see them this year. Yves Tumor is an American musician and producer who makes experimental pop/r&b music? It’s kinda hard to categorize their sound, but trust me, it’s pretty cool. I wouldn’t say I’m like a massive fan of theirs, but I did like the album they put out this year.

Their fifth studio album came out back in March of this year, and it is called Praise a Lord Who Chews but Which Does Not Consume; (Or Simply, Hot Between Worlds). That took a while to type out. I was a fan! I like most of the stuff Tumor makes, so it didn’t come as a shock to me when I also enjoyed this album. I think it’ll be really fun to see live, too, so I’m looking forward to it.

The Vogue is an interesting venue. I have some weird personal associations to it that I will NOT be getting into here, but it is a bit of a strange place for me, personally. Outside of my own feelings, it’s not a bad venue, it just…needs a bit of updating. The first time I ever went there, I was immediately overwhelmed by the smell. It just smells like a musty old building mixed with a vague hint of B.O. I’ve been there multiple times since, so I’ve gotten a chance to get used to the smell, but it was BAD. I know that the Vogue is historic and stuff so I won’t rip it to complete shreds–I think their marquee is cool. It’s got a cool art-deco architectural vibe, so I’ll give it that.

I haven’t really been paying that much attention to their tour, so I’m not certain what their live performances have been looking like or what their setlists have been like either, so I’m going into this pretty blind! It depends on which artist I’m seeing but most of the time I don’t like looking at previous setlists cause I don’t want the order of songs to be spoiled. I feel like doing that kind of spoils the whole performance, in a way, but it depends.