Philadelphia’s Free EnergyTo listen to the self-titled song from Philadelphia’s Free Energy, a breezy surf-ready tune about being young and alive, it would be easy to think that their Black Cat show should be filled with a couple dozen teenagers. Instead, the audience was populated with the people who Free Energy producer, James Murphy, has referred to as “all out of escapes” on the last LCD Soundsystem album. Not an X’ed hand in sight.
To watch lead singer Paul Sprangers onstage, it would be easy to think that he has no idea how hilarious he looks. Although he definitely had the desperate Iggy Pop mic grab down pat, he also broke out a few dance moves usually reserved for Studio 54 tribute nights or at very least, a viral OkGo video. So how does a band that seems to be an update of the pop-punk bands that no one admits to liking anymore garner praise from every elitist music critic?
