It’s a difficult feet to pull off a headline show when no one in the crowd has heard practically anything you’re playing, especially with a minor injury. “Sorry, I just pulled my neck,” Jennylee explains as she pauses half way through her solo set.
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No longer sporting a bass and sticking strictly to silky smooth vocals with a five piece band behind her, everybody in attendance is seeing a very different Jennylee as she fiddles with her sound desk and sways around the stage with cuts from her immaculate debut LP, Right On!
Several tracks like ‘Offerings’ and ‘White Devil’ surge with the melodic ferocity that comes with the Warpaint territory, but its during more understated and stripped back songs that Jennylee’s solo performance truly shines. ‘He Fresh’ is a particular highlight, with a haunting bass line and RnB percussion guiding her sweet and looming vocals along with dreamy ease.
‘Boom Boom’ also wakes up a sometimes despondent and confused crowd with its ridiculously catchy hook and rapid momentum that causes the singer to dart around the stage.
Jennylee and her band are steadily finding their feet on stage, but her nerves are clear to see initially and there’s a tentativeness in the performance that suggests she’s not quite sure how everything pieces together just yet.
The majority of the crowd (apart from us ridiculous journalists) only knowing one song doesn’t help either, and there’s a slight sense of detachment between the Warpaint member and her legion of loyal fans. But the record is pretty great and the songs pulse with an energy and spark that’s sometimes lost in the hazy Warpaint aesthetic.
