Memorable performances to close out the week
Alongside the Downtown hubbub, the team made it to West Campus for standout sets at Hole in the Wall and Pearl Street Co-Op. Read all our reviews below, or revisit all of our SXSW reviewsI’m not exactly certain when Faye Webster blew the fuck up. Her playfully lush take on country, pop, and blues – call it J.J. Cale goes Mac DeMarco or, perhaps, an extended investigation into whether one can play lap steel inside a bubble bath – remains indie-sized only in its twee and sardonic spirit.
Had Webster tried to get out of the showcase? Or was the speech just her having some concessive cake and eating it too? Whatever the case, that “discomfort” could hardly be detected in the performance proper, which – in its consistent spiking of energy from a mellow resting place – took its cue from the jumpy keyboard stabs of set opener “But Not Kiss” and carried through to a surprisingly punk rock rendition of “Cheers.
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