Welcome to Julia Wolf’s Room

The stage looked like Julia Wolf's bedroom if someone had given it a concert-sized upgrade.

    A shattered mirror vanity sat on one side, Levi Kertesz's drum platform on the other, and eight-foot windowpanes, covered with bedroom curtains, framed the entire setup. Once the smoke and lighting filled the space, the sold-out room almost disappeared. Wolf walked out in her low-rise pinstriped flares and black denim vest, immediately looking right at home in the setup.

    Opening with “Wishbone” gave the night exactly the start it needed. There was enough behind the song to get the room moving immediately, but it still left Wolf plenty of room to build. “Kill You Off” and “Loser” followed before “Deep End” brought the crowd further into the set, and it became clear pretty quickly that Wolf was completely comfortable commanding a room this full.

    Wolf is an incredible live vocalist as well. There were moments where the entire room seemed to go quiet just to hear her, and a few notes were enough to give you goosebumps. With Kertesz behind the drums and close collaborator and producer Scro alongside her, the songs had plenty of movement and layers without taking attention away from Wolf herself.

    Wolf covered plenty of the songs fans came hoping to hear, while also bringing some of her collaboration work into the set on her own. “Jennifer's Body,” “Fingernails,” and “Lamb” were among the biggest moments of the night, with the crowd especially locked into the songs they clearly came ready to hear. “Sunshine State” was another. The room was soaked in golden light, changing the atmosphere without needing anything else added to the stage.

    For a show this packed, the crowd was surprisingly present. In an era where it is almost impossible to attend a concert without seeing a sea of phones above everyone's heads, this audience spent most of the night actually watching. They sang along, danced, reacted to the songs, and enjoyed Wolf’s performance the way she intended it to be.

    By the time the set reached “You've Lost A Lot of Blood” and eventually “In My Room,” the bedroom-inspired production had come back around in a way that made the whole show feel cohesive. It was detailed without being distracting, giving Wolf a setting that matched the intimacy of her music.

    The Deep End World Tour has a lot of dates left ahead, but this show already had a pretty clear identity of its own. Julia Wolf built a room that looked like hers, filled it, and then gave everyone inside a reason to forget about everything outside of it for a few hours.

Photos and review by Bek Allegretti