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Parcels at 7th Street Parcels Setlist
Tour Dates
03/29 Lollapalooza Argentina Buenos Aires, Argentina
03/31 Lollapalooza Chile Santiago, Chile 04/06 Ceremonia México D.f., Mexico 04/08 Mohawk Austin, TX 04/09 Trees Dallas, TX 04/11 Crescent Ballroom Phoenix, AZ 04/13 Coachella Indio, CA 04/16 The Regency Ballroom San Francisco, CA 04/17 The Catalyst Santa Cruz, CA 04/18 The Fonda Theatre Los Angeles, CA 04/20 Coachella Indio, CA 06/02 Governors Ball New York, NY 06/14 Maifeld Derby Mannheim, Germany 06/15 Festi'neuch Neuchâtel, Switzerland 06/22 La Bonne Aventure Dunkerque, France 07/06 Kosmonaut Festival Chemnitz, Germany 07/19 Latitude Festival Beccles, United Kingdom 07/21 Les Vieilles Charrues Carhaix-Plouguer, France 08/11 Sziget Festival Budapest, Hungary 08/14 Paredes de Coura Festival , Portugal 08/16 Dockville Festival Hamburg, Germany 08/17 Pukkelpop Hasselt, Belgium 08/18 Lowlands Biddinghuizen, Netherlands 08/24 Freiluftarena B w/ Bilderbuch Graz, Austria 09/01 Into The Great Wide Open Vlieland, Netherlands 09/07 Lollapalooza Berlin Berlin, Germany Read More
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From Byron Bay, to Berlin, ...to just plain brrrr!
Australia by-way-of Berlin band Parcels braved the frigid elements spinning outside, for a long sold-out show at the 7th Street Entry in Minneapolis.
The evening opened with a curious set from Brooklyn duo Penthouse Boys (aka Patrick Preziosi and Ryan Wu) who have a 2017 EP, New in Town to their credit, with newer music forthcoming.
Grounded in retro synth-pop, their musical style also incorporates early NYC hip-hop, break beat, and an amount of kitsch, to make for a mostly entertaining half-hour opening.
The pair dressed in matching Beastie Boy-like one piece mechanic jumpsuits with their band logo on the back, and took advantage of any musical break, to leap out to the front of the stage for a series of coordinated dance moves.
Unsure of how seriously they actually take themselves, there’s no denying songs like ‘Je T’aime’ (“How many of you understand French?”, Preziosi asked, following it) and ‘Telephone (If Your Phone is Ringing)’ have a certain memorable element about them. Wu’s voice lends itself better to the ballads, so he took over lead for ‘Share this View’ with Preziosi then getting the crowd to chant along on the closing title track from the EP, ‘New in Town’.
Electro-pop then met nu-disco-soul as five-piece band Parcels took the stage for their highly anticipated sixty-five minute headline performance, in support of their debut self-titled full-length (on Because/Kitsuné Music) featuring plenty of songs (whose titles that apparently hate the keyboard space bar).
Beginning with the opening ‘Comedown’, the vibe was immediately established of both being very laid back, as well as more encouraging of dancing, help set about by a late 70’s Chic-era Nile Rodgers-like rhythm guitar riff anchoring the song.
‘Lightenup’ sounded like a musical sequel to Chic’s ‘I Want Your Love’ and the band has no fear of going into extended instrumental passages during their songs to extend the nu-disco groove. The quintet (Louie Swain-keys/synth; Patrick Hetherington-keys/synth; Noah Hill- bass; Anatole "Toto" Serret- drums; Jules Crommelin- guitar) actually features three of the members taking turns singing lead at some point, though Swain handles most of the songs.
“It’s very cold and we’re losing our voices a bit” Swain admitted (though their Beach Boys-style harmonies were still apparent), asking the audience to help a bit with the singing, which everyone happily obliged to do. The band’s own ‘Bemyself’ flowed nicely into a 1970 cover of Paul McCartney’s ‘Every Night’ with its “and be with you” chorus.
The band had also brought a very professional setup to the show, complete with higher-end in-ear monitors /wireless gear, a custom mixing desk, and even a foot pedal-activated smoke machine- things most bands playing this small venue can only dream of, but collaborating with the likes of Daft Punk (on the song ‘Overnight’) and playing large festivals like Glastonbury during their earlier EP days, will help do that for you.
The crowd erupted for current radio hit, ‘Tieduprightnow’ with the band lamenting following the song, how lovely the city outside must be, but that they usually don’t have any time to explore the places they play. The aforementioned ‘Overnight’ is one of their faster tempo’d tracks, and would easily fit alongside the Daft Punk/Pharrell/Nile Rodgers collaboration, ‘Get Lucky’ with its chorus, “The minute I was thinking to hold you back, the moment I was wishing it's over night”.
‘IknowhowIfeel’ then took the yacht rock into deep space, with the hum and buzz of a vintage synthesizer sound and lyric “There's a place I need to go, over the end of every road” suitably winding down the set as the band would end things by going full circle to reprise part of their beginning song, ‘Comedown’ with each band member leaving one-by-one to extended applause, to finish the set.
Without sounding too cliché, Parcels’ performance could indeed be categorized as a special delivery - a show from a still-new buzzing band very clearly on the rise, that will likely return, but undoubtedly to a larger venue and even more fans.
(click on any photo below to enlarge and see full image)
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Parcels at 7th St Entry, Minneapolis (02 March 2019) |
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