Band: Cold War Kids
Venue: Observatory North Park
Special: First Concert back since COVID started (previous was Twenty-One Pilots)
Expectations were low. We like CWK; when it's working it's works good.
Sounded good. They worked up some good grooves.
I normally like it when a band goes into a bridge, drops out and extends a song, but CWK seemed to just be killing their groove. There songs would just kind of stop rather than end.
Their version of "Something is not right with me" was awesome, easily making the whole evening worthwhile. Heavy U2-like bass (Exit?), jangly guitar and keyboard, building an amazing groove. Much better than the earlier versions (youtube live versions after 2015). And the then broke it down into something and killed the groove. Nonetheless, pretty awesome.