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Electric Coma

Tremont Music Hall

June 24, 2010

Electric Coma is usually a duo, but performed as a single entity Thursday night at Tremont in support of its new EP, Plug In, released at the show.

Kaitlyn Kennedy was a one-woman band as she rotated between her stand-up keyboard and acoustic guitar. She has an astonishingly mature, dramatic voice for her early twenty-something age — comparable to that of a Sarah McLachlan or Tori Amos. The ambience and sound also reminded me of Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in the Fabulous Baker Boys — Beau and Jeff Bridges thankfully were nowhere in sight.

She started off with the optimistic, keyboard-based little ditty "Never Blind," luring the small crowd of family and friends into a false sense of what was coming next. She then transgressed into a series of brooding, sad and introspective songs about relationships going or gone wrong to where the point of no return has long since passed. "Red" and "Seas to a Boat" — which highlights the EP — were instances of the eerie mood created by the blending of her haunting vocals and trance-inducing keyboard playing. It grabs you and demands attention.

Kennedy slipped in a surprising, yet somber cover of Radiohead's 1997 classic "Karma Police." Yes, I know — could the song be any more somber than it was originally? It made one wonder "is this what Thom Yorke would sound like as a woman belting out his confusing, emotionally distraught lyrics?" She actually did justice to the chronically depressed Brit crooner. Her voice has potential to be very good. The guitar work was fair. Her keyboarding is building steam and is an integral part of her music along with her vocalization.

She finished in the sweltering heat of Tremont's cement block walls with "Hunger Pains" — a sour love song with sweet harmonies that could very well be a hit if fine tuned properly.

Set List

Never Blind

Red

Seas to a Boat

Story

Karma Police

Sacrifice

Without Regret

False Promises

Cost

Hunger Pains

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