Drenched in color from the LED screens behind him, Chet Faker began his Friday closing set at Sasquatch! Music Festival in style with the help of his four piece band. Alternating between a full band and playing solo on his keyboard and mixer, Chet visually displayed the duality in his music. Often striking orchestral grandeur, Faker also plays on the bedroom production his beats often take inspiration from. When the classic Bigfoot stage technical difficulties took form, Chet was captured in a moment of silence, still singing his heart out and wailing on his drum pad. When the sound came back on, it started with the isolated track of Fakers drum pad before taking full form. The moment of silence displayed Faker’s intensity in the live setting and his musical precision, turning a possible moment of embarrassment into one of triumph. Faker also brought on friend and common collaborator Marcus Marr, whose own set had captivated the El Chupacabra tent just hours prior. The on-stage collaboration was an accent mark on an already strong set, showing that Faker can move a crowd both through his production and his silky smooth voice and songwriting.
It's been close to six months since La Luz left Seattle for Los Angeles, so Sasquatch served as a sort of homecoming for the surf rock quartet. (Notably, they were met with weather that was far more Californian than Northwestern.) The move hasn't dulled their reverb-drenched edge one bit however, a…
Peter Michel seems to be living in the breezy midpoint in between lying in bliss and getting lost in the moment, so it's fitting that the Seattle' musician and his comrades in Hibou opened the Bigfoot stage on a day that fell into that same feeling. Most of Hibou's catalog runs at a midtempo pace a…
