March 14, 2013: Finch

Concert Details:

Bands: Finch, The Almost

Location: Fillmore Silver Spring

Setlist:

1. New Beginnings
2. Letters to You
3. Post Script
4. Grey Matter
5. Perfection Through Silence
6. Awake
7. Without You Here
8. Stay With Me
9. Project Mayhem
10. Untitled 
11. Three Simple Words
12. Ender

Encore:

13. Worms of the Earth

14. Waiting

15. New Kid

16. What it is to Burn

Finch is a band I've seen before.  Last time i saw them, it was opening for HIM, not exactly the right crowd for them.  This time it was different, everyone was there to see Finch.  Finch is a band that I've always enjoyed, well at least one album wroth.  What It Is Burn was a great album and this show was for the 10th anniversary of the album and the general assumption, and hope to an extent, was that that would be the only thing they played. The lead singer, although probably well into his 30's carried with him the energy of someone at the beginning of their career instead of deep into it.

The first part of the show is exactly what we wanted, the first twelve songs of the album straight through.  The crowd was very into the show, which is all the more impressive for a band that had the one popular album.  Overall it was a good first part of the show because the crowd knew every single song.

The big misstep the band took, at least in my opinion was for the encore playing a couple songs that were not on the album.  By playing those songs, they lost all of their momentum immediately.  Thankfully for them, their final song and title track is one of the most energetic on the album and with the opening chords they were able to light the spark of their momentum again with the simple scream opening of "She Burns".

While I had a good time, this is one band that I truly have no desire to see again as I don't believe that they have anything else to offer me.