It’s only been a week since the crush of the crowd at Travis Scott’s Astroworld show in Houston led to the deaths of nine people. The open field in front of the stage was crowded but not in an uncomfortable way. Lindqvist came out from behind his keyboards to play guitar on this one, and singer Curtis Harding, who is featured on the track, stepped out to sing his part live before confetti blasts punctuated the finish. “Surrender,” the song off the new album, was equally uplifting in sound and spirit. “Make It Happen” opened with the recorded voices of a children’s choir from the new album before the chorus of “Love can change it all / Love can make it happen” added a touch of Beatles-like positivity to the number. The music builds slowly, the sound growing bigger with each verse and chorus, while the lyrics take a simple hook and repeat them until they’re mantra-like for the dancing crowd.Īs the show progressed, other highlights arrived.
Songs such as “You Were Right” or “On My Knees,” both of them early highlights on Friday, are good examples of the Rüfüs Du Sol method. Yes, there’s a ton of electronics in the music they make, but they look and play more like a rock band than DJs and producers in the EDM genre. Unlike many electronic dance music artists, such as fellow Australians Flight Facilities, who opened the show, Rüfüs Du Sol doesn’t perform behind banks of computers and sequencers and other digital gear. Rüfüs Du Sol gets tagged as an alternative dance act, which it is – people do dance to them – but that’s also a bit of misdirection, too. The night opened with Lindqvist, keyboardist Jon George, and drummer James Hunt taking their places on three platforms spread evenly across the stage and playing the opening number “Eyes” in backlit silhouettes, shrouded in shadows and smoke.
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