Photo by Carson Paradis<\/p>\n
Review by Kathryn Harmon<\/p>\n
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Few gigs have left me as pleasantly nauseated as Flipturn\u2019s show last Friday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n I stumble out with the crowd, lean on a concrete barrier on Lansdowne, and wait for my stomach to settle. The rest of the concertgoers pour out as \u201cShipping Out to Boston,\u201d Flipturn\u2019s tongue-in-cheek exit song, blares from inside. I notice wide eyes across the crowd, our worlds still spinning after Flipturn\u2019s show. <\/span><\/p>\n We walked into the House of Blues thinking we knew Flipturn\u2019s music, but the energy we saw on stage blew us away. It cements a fact that was clear to me the second the first chord ripped across the stage- you haven\u2019t heard a Flipturn song until you\u2019ve heard it live.<\/span><\/p>\n On stage, Flipturn conducts the crowd and weaves them into their songs. Frontman Dillon Basse quiets for the chorus of \u201cAugust\u201d and the na-na-nas of \u201cNickel,\u201d letting the audience\u2019s screaming take precedence. <\/span><\/p>\n The lyrics from their opening song, \u201cChurches,\u201d are only understood when posed as a question on stage: \u201cCan you feel it now\/people in the crowd?\u201d The response is screams and cheers of affirmation, and those turn into an instrument all their own. <\/span><\/p>\n Their inspirations as a band are even more apparent live, too. They walk on to \u201cDance Yrself Clean\u201d by LCD Soundsystem. As an encore, they cover \u201cReptilia\u201d by The Strokes. You can only decipher the core of their songs live- \u201cTake Care\u201d feels like the metamorphosis of a heartbeat, and the soaring synth of \u201cWhales\u201d sounds just like a whale song. Flipturn\u2019s music just <\/span>makes sense <\/span><\/i>when heard at the moment, their momentum transferring onto the audience in a way it isn\u2019t when recorded.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The band plays well together, if not a bit dutifully- Basse commands the stage, while bassist Madeline Jarman and guitarist Tristan Duncan share thrilled glances as they play across the stage from each other. Mitch Fountain, the guitar and synth player, keeps his headphones on all night, in deep concentration as he switches between instruments- there is rarely silence on stage, and most of those transitions are sweeping synth. Devon Volbalson stuns as a drummer- at some point, he jumps into the pit and plays on the barrier, then leaps back onstage and puts a drum on his head, playing the intro to \u201cWhales\u201d essentially blind. Their talent is unmistakable, and everyone in the room can tell- they\u2019re going places.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Flipturn, springing forth from a garage in Florida, is not touring their most recent album, \u201cShadowglow,\u201d released in 2021, or opening for another indie group- like Two Door Cinema Club, who they\u2019ll open for this summer. Their spring tour, \u201cSomething More,\u201d is a secret third option, an independent tour, music-making for the sake of it. <\/span><\/p>\n They\u2019ve garnered a lot of success and popularity for those live shows, and really for those live shows alone- their website is proud to credit this as \u201corganic growth- not the result of a record label\u2019s big-budget marketing push, but the natural result of consistent touring and fervent word-of-mouth recommendations from their audience.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n When Flipturn\u2019s music plays before you, you become immersed in a world of simmering summertimes, lights cutting through the darkness, packed house shows and cavernous warehouses, lost loves, and things best forgotten. Performance is too tame a word for it- Flipturn is a moment that truly must be seen to be believed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Photo by Carson Paradis Review by Kathryn Harmon Few gigs have left me as pleasantly nauseated as Flipturn\u2019s show last Friday.\u00a0 I stumble out with the crowd, lean on a concrete barrier on Lansdowne, and wait for my stomach to settle. 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