Meltt Setlist

One Life
Hesitate
Do You Ever Wonder?
Goodbye
The Absent Sea
Love Again
Never Let Go
Fool of You
Aphantasian Dreams
(Unknown)
Monomyth
Up All Night
By Your Side
Within You, Within Me
The Huntsman
Only in Your Eyes
— Encore —
Into the Blue
Deeper Water

The middle of the week can often be a bit of a death knell for a concert. Some city has to get the Wednesday show, but my guess is if you logged attendance at shows in any number of ways, Wednesdays are probably at the low end. With all that said, I was pleased to see that a good crowd had come over to St. Paul’s Turf Club, for an international night with Canadian indie rockers Meltt who were in town supporting their newest album.

The opener was Los Eclipses. The electronic dream pop duo is composed of French singer Eva de Marce and Mexican producer Dan Solo (aka Daniel Salazar). They’ve been busy since their debut in 2023, with their 2024 debut album Eden Sauvage and hitting a number of festivals. With Solo on keyboards, electronic music as well as controlling the laptop’s backing music, he was busy and always in the love, while de Marce on vocals was the proverbial graceful cat. It was an excellent pairing and that complex music with the clear soprano vocals was the exact right result. I loved that when Solo had some minor technical difficulties in the first song that required him to be under his rig switching cables, he still brought his hand up to hit critical keyboard chords. Everything fixed, Los Eclipses continued to build their lush and very full sound. The third number really laid down the dance beat and de Marce was all cool club atmosphere, and I mean that as a true compliment. By contrast, Solo was the slightly frenetic DJ and his attention between all of his instrumentation was well executed. I think the French lyrics (and sometimes Spanish) added to the overall sense of cool and the band continued to move. Saying it was their first time in Minnesota, Solo was suddenly strapping on a guitar and still working everything else, which felt like a lot, while de Marce continued to sing like she didn’t have a care in the world. A chorus that included “que sera” was followed by a cool guitar refrain. The guitar was gone and Solo was rocking the keys again and Los Eclipses had passed all tests of cool as they closed their set.

Meltt was on to headline the evening. The Vancouver based quartet is touring in support of third album June 2026’s Pathways. We last saw them in Rocktober of 2025 at 7th St. Entry, where their psychedelia infused indie rock where they displayed a mature on stage presence (elaborate stage lighting design, great use of electronic music to seamlessly transition between numbers) with their slightly dreamy rock. I was pleased to see the lighting design back for another tour, as they put four of those lights across the front of the stage and the other four around the drummer. Those lights were going from the very start as the band started with One Life, the opening track from the new album. All three of the front row had keys or electronica in addition to the guitars or bass and that added a lot over the course of the set. Chris Smith had the lead vocals and his higher tenor lent itself well to the instrumentation underneath, especially on an early crowd favorite in Do You Ever Wonder?. Like last time, they used some electronic music between numbers to allow quick tuning or change of instruments, and with a heavy guitar intro from James Porter on The Absent Sea, we had the darkest number of the evening thus far. Bassist and keyboardist Ian Winkler seems like the glue guy of the band; doing all the little things that hold the music together. Smith and Winkler suddenly changed sides of the stage, as well as instruments, showing off a range of musicality. Winkler had some good keys work mid-song before getting back to guitar and ultimately switching back with Porter to original stage positions. Porter got an emphatic guitar intro, while Smith leaned into a slightly reverbed vocals. It also had drummer Jamie Turner at his most aggressive and pretty quickly the band followed suit on the long instrumental outro. Porter had lead vocals on a late set song, and the multiple instrumental sections were an appropriately noisy affair. A technical error led to a mid-song stop and restart, but Meltt handled it in stride and the crowd was very forgiving. A high tempo, crushing guitar number had Meltt close to the end, and the crowd was riled up. The set closed with Only in Your Eyes with both Smith and Porter getting lead vocals and the and headed off stage with lights flashing and electronic music ongoing. A thankfully brief off stage period led to a “we have a couple more songs” and the encore got going. The slow wind up of Into the Blue came with the lights in thump mode if that makes sense. Rolling past 90 minutes, Meltt ended on the high note of Deeper Water, and had temporarily (and successfully) made the fans forget it was a Wednesday and not a weekend.