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Young Veins, Gaslight Anthem give Bonnaroo crowds an early boost
"It's a summer album, and it's summertime," Young Veins singer/guitarist Ryan Ross said Friday from Bonnaroo's Troo Music Lounge, by way of introduction to "Take a Vacation!," the title track from the band's new debut LP. It sure was hard to forget about it being summer, what with the June-afternoon Tennessee sun boiling tens of thousands of heads across the Bonnaroo grounds.
Easy, though, to forget that it wasn't so long ago that Ross' musical output seemed more fitting at punk road show Warped Tour than Bonnaroo.
His new outfit with fellow former Panic! at the Disco member Jon Walker takes a long leap from their emo-centric Panic past. While that former band's later work certainly showed an appreciation for sunny, '60s pop and psychedelia, Take a Vacation embodies that vibe wholly — maybe more thoroughly than the vast majority of young bands currently working that angle.
The Young Veins played through Vacation track "Cape Town" with reserved head-nods and sticky bah-bah-bah refrains, and Walker took the lead on bouncy, bright harmony-inflected track "Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't." Both were solid indicators of the band's grasp of hummable, memorable songwriting, beyond those well-constructed throwback moods. As live performers, they're taut well beyond the young members' individual years, and certainly the new band's years. And that all certainly threatens to make Walker and Ross rare escapees from the forever-emo-tagged briar patch.
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Easy, though, to forget that it wasn't so long ago that Ross' musical output seemed more fitting at punk road show Warped Tour than Bonnaroo.
His new outfit with fellow former Panic! at the Disco member Jon Walker takes a long leap from their emo-centric Panic past. While that former band's later work certainly showed an appreciation for sunny, '60s pop and psychedelia, Take a Vacation embodies that vibe wholly — maybe more thoroughly than the vast majority of young bands currently working that angle.
The Young Veins played through Vacation track "Cape Town" with reserved head-nods and sticky bah-bah-bah refrains, and Walker took the lead on bouncy, bright harmony-inflected track "Maybe I Will, Maybe I Won't." Both were solid indicators of the band's grasp of hummable, memorable songwriting, beyond those well-constructed throwback moods. As live performers, they're taut well beyond the young members' individual years, and certainly the new band's years. And that all certainly threatens to make Walker and Ross rare escapees from the forever-emo-tagged briar patch.
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