Introducing several new songs, some of which the band announced were receiving their first live renditions on this tour, the pair’s twitchy and airy electropop settled in the darkened fringes of the theater with an enveloping resonance. Stepping out Friday night from behind a white shroud that silhouetted the pair’s forms center stage, they incorporated lights, a video screen and a 5-piece staggered mirror suspended above them that refracted the lighting in different forms and directions to match the mood of the music. The two-piece vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Sarah Barthel and vocalist and guitar player Josh Carter – backed by two other musicians to round out their heavily electronic live show – perform with a visual element that borders on the transcendental.
Selecting Reno’s Grand Sierra Resort for the opening show of a monthlong cross-country tour (their first since 2017), Upstate New York’s Phantogram put on display the band’s tendencies for staging live shows that encapsulate far more than music. Phantogram – a word meaning a two-dimensional form or illusion that appears three-dimensional – may be an ideal way to sum up Phantogram (the band’s) live performances. Phantogram (Sarah Barthel, Josh Carter) provided a multi-leveled performance at Grand Sierra Resort.
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