Review & setlist: Allie X shows up and shows out at The Sinclair
Allie X has been touring since 2015, but Monday night was her first night headlining in Boston (or at least Cambridge). Allie X, the Canadian alternative pop artist known as Alexandra Ashley Hughes, performed at The Sinclair in Boston on Monday night. This was Allie X's first headlining performance in Boston since 2015. The sold-out crowd was particularly pleased with the performance, with Allie's fans expressing pride. The show featured an energetic 30-minute set from Maylee Todd, featuring elements of her avant-garde style and futuristic puff-sleeved top. In 2020, she released her second studio album, "Cape God," set in an opulent fictionalized coastal Massachusetts town. Allies X's performance included hits from her previous album "Girl With No Face," "Susie Save Your Love," "Science," and "Off With Her Tits."
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Allie X has been touring since 2015, but Monday night was her first night headlining in Boston — or Cambridge, as someone cheekily amended from the audience — and her fans could not be more pleased.
“Boston showed up and showed out,” she beamed, regarding the crowd with pride. “This means so much. At the meet-and-greet a lot of you mentioned you were waiting for me to come here for four years.”
In 2020, Allie X, the stage name for the Canadian alternative pop artist Alexandra Ashley Hughes, released her second studio album “Cape God,” a record set in an opulent, depraved fictionalized coastal Massachusetts town. Four years, a pandemic, and another album later, her sold-out homecoming to the state that inspired her was nothing less than triumphant.
The show kicked off with an energetic 30-minute set from Canadian singer and performance artist Maylee Todd, clad in giant novelty paw slippers, colorful makeup, and a futuristic puff-sleeved top. Todd’s otherworldly avant-garde look and dreamy sound were well-suited to an audience looking forward to the same from Allie X, and they readily complied when Todd asked fans to form a “dance circle” around her before she jumped off the stage to perform from the ground.
Sufficiently warmed up, the crowd cheered zealously when the lights darkened and Allie X strutted onstage to her signature pounding synth, singing a rendition of her ever-popular 2015 hit “Bitch” — dressed up in the new, dramatic ’80s glam sound she adopted on her 2024 album “Girl With No Face.” Thin red ropes running between a row of black poles in front of the stage, along with Allie X’s all-white ensemble and space age sunglasses, gave the room a retro-futuristic feel, playfully setting the mood for a record that calls to mind artists like Kate Bush, Madonna, and Kraftwerk.
Though tracks from “Girl With No Face” dominated, Allie X also treated long-time devotees to throwbacks like “Susie Save Your Love,” a well-loved collaboration with veteran indie darling Mitski; “Science”; and “Super Duper Party People.” The singer was in top vocal form all night, seamlessly easing from sultry lows to operatic highs and even perfectly pitched screams. A stripped-back piano version of the angry, desperate “Galina” in particular displayed the raw power and range of her incredible pipes.
For the penultimate performance of her set, Allie X introduced the audience to “Bon Voyage,” an unreleased demo brimming with bittersweet anticipation to “leave it all behind and bon voyage.” Though the track shared some of the goth-pop attributes of “Girl With No Face,” its mournful longing signified the start of a new era for the musician.
She concluded with a song she described as “the c—tiest song [she’s] ever written,” the “Girl With No Face” standout track “Off With Her Tits.” Though most had only been nodding along for most of the night, practically everyone shouted along and jumped up and down in time with the song’s thrumming bass for the final song.
Allie X seemed to know the encore was coming, because it didn’t take long after the sustained whoops and yells began before she re-entered the stage, vowing to give her dedicated admirers a taste of the “classics.” The three-song encore featured only pre-2020 songs, “Girl Of The Year,” “Paper Love,” and “Casanova,” but the fans didn’t seem to mind — they had waited four years, after all.
Setlist for Allie X at The Sinclair, June 10, 2024:
• You Slept On Me
• Off With Her Tits
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