From the Technicolor merch to the staging to the setlist, everything about Phoenix and Beck’s joint headlining Summer Odyssey Tour was breezy during a New York stop at Madison Square Garden o…
’s joint headlining Summer Odyssey Tour was breezy during a New York stop at Madison Square Garden on Saturday. The strictly fun vibe was best illustrated by the featherweight “Odyssey,” a new tune the two acts released this year to commemorate the trek .
Phoenix played a show heavy on the group’s breakout album, 2009’s “Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix,” and newest record, last year’s “Alpha Zulu,” leading multiple singalongs about posh people falling in love. From millennial-approved party starters “Lisztomania” and “1901” to more reflective moments like live highlight “Sunskrupt!,” which mashes up “Bankrupt!” and “Love Like a Sunset” into a lengthy, trippy jam, Phoenix kept things moving.
Such a high-energy act seemed hard to follow, but Beck and his longtime backing band bounded onstage, turbocharged and ready to play a hit-filled set that ignored his most recent record, 2019’s “Hyperspace.” The first stretch of songs focused on his career-defining fifth LP, 1996’s “Odelay,” from the dirty guitar roar of opener “Devils Haircut” to the retro-cool “The New Pollution,” and radio hits “Mixed Bizness” and “Girl.
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