Japanese Breakfast has mastered the duality of femininity. Girls are mysterious. One minute, she’s emerging in a clam shell, Birth of Venus style, shrouded in wispy white fabrics and softly crooning on her guitar. The next, she is absolutely SHREDDING under a sea of strobe lights. This is what it means to be a woman. Soft, intense, unpredictable.

Michelle Zauner cannot be contained to a binary identity. She encompasses all aspects of indie rock, from the crooning to the rocking out. She devours the identity, teaches us all what it means to be a woman commanding a sold-out audience onstage at Liberty Hall on a Monday. Her latest tour, touting songs off For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) is an incredible evolution from her last body of work with Jubilee. The stage production alone big enough to encompass her cultivating emotions, flooding the audiences with rolling gentle fog, enveloping them at various speeds depending on the pace of the song. It was like watching a dream come to life.

She was joined on this night by Ginger Root, who absolutely delighted the audience from the get-go. What an infectious energy! Cameron Lew radiates positivity with a stage presence we don’t get a lot from today’s young crooners. Lew pulled out all sorts of gadgets, video tricks, and instruments to keep the audience eating out of the palm of his hand. Considering how quickly he won over new fans that night, as well as the number of albums already under his belt, we won’t be surprised if he comes back for his own headlining tour soon.