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Post Malone at Coachella review – chameleonic megastar wows in the desert
The 29-year-old singer travelled through his genre-shifting back catalogue in a charming and energetic 90-minute headliner set
You could see said appeal working the Coachella crowd on Sunday night – the youngest-skewing of the headliners by far, Post being one of gen Z’s top avatars for the good life: fame, fortune, freedom from boundaries, wearing one’s heart on one’s sleeve but keeping it chill. Post possesses one of the most versatile and chameleonic voices in music, but Sunday’s show leaned twangy as an act built around F-1 Trillion, the Texas native’s beers and bros country album released last year with a slew of Nashville collaborators. Photograph: Christopher Polk/Billboard/Getty ImagesThat the music was often so full-bodied and steamrolling as to make Post’s words indecipherable, his glassy voice overwhelmed by big, bruising guitar licks and bigger pyrotechnics, mattered little to the crowd screaming along to late 2010s hits Circles, Congratulations and Rockstar, or line dancing to new song M-E-X-I-C-O.
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