Having played only four songs off his acclaimed, For Emma, Forever Ago debut: "Skinny Love", "Re:Stacks", "Beach Baby", and "For Emma"; the remainder of the evening's set gave audience members that element of surprise we were waiting on.
This was a grouping of cherished performances not often seen demonstrated by his duet with St.Vincent for the song "Roslyn" off of the Twilight soundtrack. The second song that genuinely haunted the audience, accompanied by the Dessner twins [The National]; was the romantic "Big Red Machine", which was written for the Dark Was The Night compilation.
Justin and his no-name, collaborated orchestra successfully brought an eerie vibration to those in the old theater, which is sure to have Cincinnati wavering in anticipation for next year's line-up announcement.
Big things are happening for Cincinnati's music scene, and the curators of MusicNow Festival are seeing to it that people take notice.
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