Anderson .Paak live review
“Damn there a lot of you motherfuckers here!” chirps Anderson Paak with a broad grin, bouncing on stage and surveying his already sweating audience who have been grinding to his DJ’s warm-up jams for the last half hour. And it’s true: XOYO is disconcertingly packed, and disconcertingly jumping too, making for a febrile atmosphere off which Paak gorges: whether doing the time-honoured hip-hop “hands-up” routine, or rapping from behind his drumkit playing Curtis Mayfield covers with instinctive, insistent propulsion, there’s an undeniable aura emanating from the front of the room, where, undaunted by the attention, Paak does a pretty passable dancing audition for the lead singer in Future Islands, all gangly slow-mo limbs in a sort of ketamine Riverdance, and stage dives for the encore. It’s a giddying, joyful, addictive spectacle.
