The Analysts @ Rubulad
While you’ll usually find us posted up somewhere sleazy in Manhattan, we’re no stranger to waiting 19 minutes for the return L train from Jefferson Ave either.
After a hasty pregame at Pearls on St.Nicholas, we sucked down a cigarette and sped down to Rubulad a few blocks down (am I supposed to say that? I had to dm for addy, oh well).
We came for our favorite one man band, the radio’s very own, The Analysts. After a few short steps walking through the narrow passage way to the venue, we were shot out into acid wonderland. A yard full of colorful shacks and sheds, interesting blowup structures, and a wonderful spirit of DIY.
This place looked like the brainchild of a Gen X hippie who maxed out their credit card. And to be honest, we were fucking with it. Plenty of places to do drugs discreetly or make out with someone you probably shouldn’t be without judgment from the outside world.
We <3 Bushwick.
The main room in the venue was quite intimate (small) and filled with blacklight paint as well as various hazardous knickknacks. It was a cool vibe. Kind of like the room of your friend’s older brother who smoked reggie and had encyclopedic knowledge of conspiracy theories. I’d say smokeshop core but honestly it was cooler than that and we liked the venue a lot.
It was freakish in a good way. The crowd was half NYU awkward trustfund bf and half Bushwick baddie gf. There was a communal feeling and everyone who was there came to see someone they knew, which I consider a good thing. That’s love.
Finally, we reached the moment we had all been waiting for. The sultan of synths. The mogul of moogs. The archduke of arpeggiators. The Analysts took the stage (and our breaths). He carefully built up each song, element by element, and reached a climax of sound where all in the room danced. We were lucky enough to have performance artists with balloons in their hair and no tops in the room, dancing, crawling, and setting the vibe for a night of debauchery.
While some were uncomfortable, I relished in theatricals of it all. And there was no better backdrop than the Analysts hard hitting, synth heavy, club ready music that took on a life of it’s own when performed live for the first time ever. Watch the footage above.
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