Review: DREAMERS awaken Sacramento at Ace of Spades

Q&AMusic

Aug 25

☆ BY Makena Alquist ☆

AS DREAMERS ENTERS THE STAGE AT ACE OF SPADES MONDAY NIGHT - the crowd erupted. The band name illuminated the stage in neon turquoise, matching the bright blue hair of the lead singer, Nick Wold.

“It’s great to be back in Sacramento”, said Wold, “this is our first tour back since the world ended,” he hung on to that thought quietly for half a second as the audience and the band remembered the nearly three years it had been since they had last seen each other. Wold broke the silence with a half-sarcastic shout, “Alright, let’s go crazy, it’s Monday!” as the band launched into the opening song of the set, “Runaway”.

DREAMERS exist on the line between punk rock and dance-pop that both dedicated fans and casual alternative radio listeners adore. Their lyrics, often contemplative and existential, sound like something more suited to an emo band, but the high energy drums and catchy guitar riffs behind the words make the urge to dance irresistible. The crowd succumbed to this urge as each song was met with jumping, fist pumping, and the occasional headbang.

An electricity permeated through the audience as dynamic as the synths and guitars that flow through each DREAMERS song. Entirely in sync with the band, the audience carried them through early technical difficulties, singing the opening of “Misfits T-Shirt” as the band fixed guitars and amps. This follows the ethos of DREAMERS, as Wold said to the crowd that night, the name references the band as well as the fans, dreaming together about anything and everything. The band’s slogan on all of their social media says it all, “Dreamers, join us”.

DREAMERS, on tour right now promoting new single Robbery, as well as their recent single Bad Days featuring the tour’s co-headliner, The Score, played all of their hits and new singles. The new single Robbery was met with applause and excitement, the crowd cheered on touring guitarist Ari Tibi, as they performed a choreographed dance to the song while wearing a neon green ski mask.

The band displayed their aptitude for pop-punk with energizing bass riffs and loud, fuzzy guitar solos throughout the show highlighted on the songs, “Desensitize” and, “Last Love Song”. While early hit, “Wolves” and new single, “Robbery”, lean more towards the alternative pop genre from which the band’s biggest radio hits have emerged.

The concert reached its peak during a drum solo in the middle of “Painkiller”. The song, a hit off of their debut album, is a fan favorite and easy to clap along to, an undisputable crowd pleaser. Wold stepped out from behind the microphone into the audience who had begun to mosh to the solo. He jumped along with them and as he stepped back up towards the stage, the first two rows of fans reached their hands up towards him. He fell back and, as always, the DREAMERS fans were there to catch him.

The band and the fans laughed together in the face of the sign beside the stage which in boldface lettering read, “No Stagediving. No Crowdsurfing.”

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