The Juan Maclean

The Juan Maclean

Here’s another artist I’ve been dying to see for a while. I thought the Juan Maclean’s In A Dream (a sorta-reboot with Nancy Whang front and center as a full-time member) was one of the most underrated albums of last year, and I always figured this stuff would sound amazing live. I walked away with only minor qualms: they didn’t play the awesome In A Dream opener “A Place Called Space,” and their set was too short. The 45 minutes or hour or whatever they had passed rapidly, like a blink, because every groove and synth layer was so all-encompassing. The kind of stuff you just lose yourself in for a bit and then you realize all this time had passed. It was something like 2:30 in the morning when they finished; it seems like a missed opportunity that they weren’t one of the artists that played long enough to greet the sunrise.Â