Cautious Clay @ The Showbox - Seattle, WA (Support: Remi Wolf)

I appreciate when a show can lend me to a new experience. Across his discography, Cautious Clay shows us his journey through love and the process of finding what we deserve. Walking into the show in Seattle I knew that I was in for a night of soothing R&B/Pop, a bit of crowd swaying and a lot of singing.

What I didn’t anticipate was the opener, Remi Wolf, and the electric energy she lit the room up with. Backed with a live drummer and guitarist, Remi picked the crowd up off the ground and mesmerized us into dances and plenty of head bobbing goodness. She displays a casual confidence you find in most seasoned artists but with a dash of spice. She has an unapologetic demeanor that let the crowd know exactly who she was, while assuring us that this would be a performance to release our inhibitions to. Remi Wolf brought us up, and then Cautious Clay enters the stage to ground us.

Cautious Clay completes the night with a set that stuck with me long after the show was over. Throughout the performance, Cautious Clay belted his heart out to enticing Pop/Electronic/R&B hits like Cold War, Erase and Joshua Tree. He also nods to his more personal and deeper slow jams like SIDEWINDER, Stolen Moments and SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. Don’t confine him to just his voice though, as he displayed his instrumental prowess with guitar and saxophone solos that wowed all of us.

I was lucky to have witnessed the Context tour, so if you missed it and Cautious Clay ever pops up in your city, you know what to do.