Live Review: Earl Sweatshirt

With Earl Sweatshirt's latest album I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album, this scribe is curious to see how he's going to push all the energy into an otherwise quite dark album.

And he delivers, jumping straight into Pre and then Burgundy and Molasses. Not only can you see him giving it all, the crowd gives also and hang off every single word that's said from beginning to end. And despite rumours about the end of Odd Future, we still get a few of Earl Sweatshirt's favourites from those early days, the first of which is Couch, which helps him introduce the new tracks live. Playing almost the entire album live, we're impressed by the switch from studio to live. I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside: An Album goes much harder than we could have imagined in the flesh and, with the energy of the audience going off for the entire show, there's no way you couldn't get into the vibe. 

By the end of the performance of this album, Sweatshirt lets everyone know there's some bad news: he's tired as shit, doing one more song and then going to bed. The good news is we get one of his personal favourites, Quest/Power, which isn't your typical end-of-show song. So off he walks and then (of course) we get one more. We get Drop and the energy in the room reaches a peak that we haven't experienced at a gig in a long time.

Earl Sweatshirt live is everything you want: it's brutally honest, full of energy and, most of all, it's an insane show. He truly delivers.