Surely there are few others in the world of indie-rock with the inventiveness and creativity that Homeshake displays.īut for all the apparent influence of hip-hop and R&B, there are still more guitar-led indie-rock tracks that intersperse the album. Everything has its right place, however, and as a cohesive whole the record begins to make sense, such as when the apparent meaningless track name “Khmlwugh” turns out to be an abbreviation for its chorus (“Kissin’, huggin’, makin’ love, waking up, getting high”, in case you were wondering). Seemingly nonsensical ideas crop up, such as the samples of a phone’s vibration which catches the listener off guard, or the sound of arctic winds in the background of a track. “Not U”’s synth line echoes P-funk, and the 808 drum patterns on “Wrapping Up” and “Timing” are ratcheted tight – almost as if they where produced by a trap artist. Sensual guitar and finger-snaps kick off the album with an R&B flavour to it, but this notion is subverted with subsequent songs. It might have been the strongest stance he took that night.Indeed, the Homeshake project has a kind of mixtape vibe to it: funny little skits punctuate songs, and the music picks and chooses from a wealth of genres.
“Peter! Peter! Peter!” A group of girls started a chant in the front row. Homeshake closed with “Every Single Thing,” and just as they started to bring the energy up, they left without a word. Unfortunately, the music was just as surface-level as some of those catch-ups. This show could have been a 5-star Off The Hook employee networking event Homeshake was a stellar soundtrack to chat with acquaintances to.
Homeshake could be excellent as a house band people in the back of the venue were catching up and talking shit. But they weren’t in some deep reverie as much as they were just looking for something to latch onto onstage. “You’re fuckin’ quiet, I like that,” he said. After an opening track, the audience applauded and he visibly shrugged. Sagar was aloof to a degree that his level of fame doesn’t usually allot for. The audience was riding a thin line between vibing and boredom. The main riff on “Give It to Me” was still hard as nails. Even some of the band’s more musically defining tracks like “Give It to Me” and “Call Me Up” lost some of their character the lack of animation and Sagar’s bizarrely quiet stage presence revealed how similar all of the songs really were. Mostly though, the melodies were vague and Sagar’s R&B crooning lyrics even more so. Everything coalesced into something tangible that the band should have showed more of music that was inconsequential by design but served a very specific purpose to a select group of people on a single Wednesday. Sometimes though, a woodblock on the 2 and the 4 is all you need, and Homeshake posted deep in a groove, locking the audience into a real trance at moments. The drummer, equipped with a kick, two cymbals, a snare and a drum pad, was on point, but the percussion was expectedly sparse. The bassist was centre-stage most of the time and provided some movement to an otherwise standstill set. His falsetto vocals wavered between what felt like two notes. Sagar was set behind a buffet of effects, an SP-404 sampler, and a pitch shifter for his voice. Sagar, emancipated from DeMarco, arguably toned down his set for Wednesday night’s Théâtre Fairmount crowd. He got detained by the police at his own UCSB show in 2014. Critics of DeMarco have levelled kindred complaints with his music, but his live shows are notoriously raucous. The result, in the form of their latest Helium, is an album that knows it wants to be chill but not much else. Melodies never quite get fleshed out and Sagar’s lyrics rarely stray from the mundane and the faux-profound. That distinction could have been refreshing if the haze hadn’t obscured any clear direction or trail for the band to blaze. Fresh out of DeMarco’s band, Sagar’s sound started similar to his prior squad’s, but has gained gained a more hazy and abstract R&B bent with each of his four albums since In the Shower in 2014. Based out of Montreal, Sagar’s brand of concerningly chill, stumblingly smooth indie-rock has become omnipresent in the city’s lo-fi circle. He left the band when Homeshake started to gain traction.
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Homeshake, for those who don’t wear Vans in the winter, is a project started by Sagar, former Mac DeMarco guitarist.
The crowd didn’t know whether or not to take it as a jab. “Feels like a loosely-packed living room in here,” said Peter Sagar, Homeshake’s frontman.
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