Real friends return to Irving Plaza – Fordham Observer

Cody Muraro, a leading singer of Real Friends, singing the most new songs of the crowd group.

True friends gathered a crowd of all ages together in Irving Plaza on November 25th. The pop-punk group based in Chicago has already made the intimate place feel like a rock show in a friend’s basement.

The “forever and forever” tour is a holiday for the seventh studio album of the Blue Hour band. This is the first album with Cody Murra of leading vocals.

The band had people on their feet, and the crowd was surfing the first song “Our Love was like a sad song.” Until the third song, Muraro is in the crowd itself. A circle opened in the middle of the floor to make room for the leading singer. It was easy to forget that there was a scene because Muraro spent the bigger part of the night singing with fans in the crowd.

Comedy moments followed when Muraro forgot the lyrics in the middle of the song, but the crowd continued to sing.

As Muraro separated the time between the scene and the crowd, the rest of the group anchored the energy of the stage all night.

The blue light and the clouds hanging on the stage reflect the concept of the blue hour – the time immediately after sunset and just before sunrise, when the sky is mostly blue. The tone of the album is beautifully filmed as Blue Hour is considered as a moment of sadness. Time is also considered a “reset” that describes the last few years as real friends as they have gone through the changes and release this album independently.

Things slowed down and fans sang as the band played teeth. Different from most songs, Real Friends released as it started as an acoustic song, then a full version of the band was made, similar to most of their songs.

Comedy moments followed when Muraro forgot the lyrics in the middle of the song, but the crowd continued to sing. He laughed at him and said he had forgotten the same texts the last time they played Irving Plaza and had the feeling that this would happen again.

Muraro stayed in the crowd of “I gave up on you”, a song “You are collected again”, an album created with the original presenter singer. He sang it with as much heart as the songs he created with the band. His voice caught the signature of a whimper tone of an emotional emo song. The mood of the sad song for decay was greeted as the lights darkened and the disco ball slowly turned, reflecting the light throughout the room.

Kyle Fazel, the bassist, presented the “waiting room”, my favorite song from the new album. Faasel wrote the song in honor of her dead father, she details the pain and the grief of losing a loved one. The sadness could be felt throughout the room as fans sang together.

The group encouraged the surfers for the first time to descend from their feet and into the air while playing outside. The song is from their 2018 album “Comparison” and this was a return that many of the audience was waiting for.

The night ended with the same energy with which it started. They closed the show with “Tell me you regret.” It was the last chance for fans to scream and quarrel, and they did just that.

It is rare for the headliners to hang around their mass on the show of shows these days, but Faasel continues to meet the fans. This is reminiscent of the Warped Tour era when he met the band after their set was standard. Between the performance of the crowd and the fans of the meeting, a real friends show feel like a field with “real friends”.

The Tour “Forever and Forever” ended December 1st.