Kill Me Tomorrow, The North Magnetic & Damelo

Sometimes it hurts to feel so real. As you know, being human, there are some moments in life, such as late at night, just before you fall asleep after a crazy day, when your mind creates a chaotic array of noise. This is your mental reaction to the reality you know and you experience a kaleidoscope of sounds, feelings and images that you've collected since you were born.
This is the best and only way I can adequately describe Wednesday's show at the Senator. When talking to one of The North Magnetic's singer / guitarist, Kelly Bauman, before the show, I should have honestly looked him in the eye and said, "Oh yeah, you know how life is." Though, what surprised me about the night's festivities was that all three bands were somehow able to present the audience with that beautiful, natural kaleidoscope of life's chaos through their music.
I am unsure of whether their performances were their best example of what's exploding in their own minds, or a guess at the goings-on in the minds of the audience members for a purpose of similarity, as if to say, "Yes, that's right; we're human too and we're just as fucked up by our society." That in mind, all of the music performed was beautiful in its own respect.
Damelo took the stage at around 9 PM and with these simple, human-made instruments, showed the audience an energetic, gritty depiction of exactly what goes on in my head. In other words, without sounding too narcissistic, they were great. "Good Job General" was their closing song and deserves mention in this review, as it was my favorite piece of the evening.
Roughly 45-minutes later, The North Magnetic hopped up and created much of the same feeling. At this point, I looked around and realized that the audience seemed numb by the music; they were speechless. Their only physical ability was to stand there and with wide-eyes, soak up the live display of these honest artists killing off any previous ideas of how music is "supposed to be."
After eight months of being together, it seems to me that they have developed rather perfectly and although they most certainly will continue to form their personal sound as time permits, they're already fucking amazing.
And so, without letting go of originality, the night blessed me with the electronic, punkish sort-of mix of harmonic noise that is Kill Me Tomorrow. They came all the way up from San Diego and honestly, I found myself in a daydream through their entire set, contemplating questions about the universe and imagining scenery only found in Star Wars. As a music fan, you don't need to catch just one of these bands, you need to catch all of these bands, as soon as fucking possible.
- Andy Harvey

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