A fantastic listen from a bedroom project in Italy. So many familiar bands seeping through that I love; Radio Dept, Baths, Pains of Being Pure at Heart. This guy is touring with Youth Lagoon and M83 this spring, but he is much lighter than both of those bands. Very carefree, bouncy music that fits over interesting and pulsating beats like Baths has. The vocals are heavily multi-tracked, and together they sound like one Jonsi of Sigur Ros. I mean this as a compliment since Jonsi has one of the most unique and stunning voices I will ever hear.
He arranges his various voices in great harmony, and shows a wide range not just in his pitch, but also in some of the sounds he can make with his voice. Traditional sounding vocals become far more intriguing when manipulated into unorthodox singing methods, like starting a quick meow like sound only to have it loop high and into the background and return full voiced within a matter of seconds, a trick he uses a couple of times but particularly effective in I think track 7, “The End Of Silence.” Other fantastic songs like “Unless You Speak From The Heart” and “Put Me To Sleep” put a driving, danceable beat to songs about leaving the party, and refusing advances unless they mean something. Released early this year, a wonderful shoe gaze album that breezes by in a beautiful listen.
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