Photos: Livingmore at the Moroccan Lounge

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Livingmore at the Moroccan Lounge (Photo by Notes From Vivace)

L.A. quartet Livingmore spun their magical tunes Sunday night at the Moroccan Lounge in support of their album “Take Me,” released in May. The album was created during the pandemic, and, as they quipped onstage, they all remained friends during the process.

Guitarist Spencer Livingston, drummer Mike Schadel and bassist Rodrigo Moreno started the set off alongside bright white lights that were specially installed by the band. Those lights, as well as the venue’s lights, blasted the stage as frontwoman Alex Moore made her entrance dressed in silver tones. It made for a glamorous start. The band started off with “Bummer” and “Dramatic,” two songs that take a positive twist on what can be viewed as the negatives of life as they sang in the later, “Hair dye delight / You look so right / Don’t you just feel like dancing.”

The crowd cheered throughout the night, but particularly during the opening notes of “Memory Hill.” And when Moore and Livingston performed what they called an “old school” duo (absent the other band members) for the song “Rays,” someone in the crowd yelled out “excellent” as the song concluded.

The band played all but one of their songs from their “Take Me” album, and for the encore they turned to a couple songs from their previous album, 2018’s “OK to Land.”

Opening up the night was Oddnesse, who played to an early arriving crowd. She charmed all while singing about “the farce of romance.” It might seem strange to be charmed by the rejection of romance, but her warm lingering sounds had that effect. Goon took the stage next with the acknowledgment that it had only taken seven years to play a set with Livingmore. Seven is the magic number. Their music can be as calm as a mountain lake during the summer and then as massive as a winter storm over the Atlantic.

Setlist: Bummer, Dramatic, Neighbors, Memory Hill, Got Me Feelin’ Like, Sharp, Energy Taken, Closer, Dreams on Fire. Encore: Rays, Really Mean it, Gone Too Fast, Dead Fruit

Photos and recap by Notes From Vivace

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