The Elected "I'll Be Your Man" from Sun, Sun, Sun Live at The Annex Madison, WI Apr 12, 2006

If Motion City Soundtrack was my most highly anticipated show of the year thus far, Metric was by far and away Emily's. She's completely nuts for those guys. She likes Rilo Kiley, too, so you'd think that an RK side-project opening for Metric would be a perfect setup. Not so much, though. After the first openers, From Fiction, ended their painfully bad set, the Elected came on and were kind of disappointing. I've found both their records to be kind of mediocre, but I thought it was maybe the kind of mediocre music that was impressive when heard live. Instead it was the kind that stayed mediocre no matter what. This was probably the best song of their set, one of their many 70's AM pop gold soundalikes. It's a little catchier than the rest, and a little less like a CSNY reunion.