Found at a place where dream pop leans further into the infectiousness of pop than perhaps the sonic sweep that is the hallmark of music made in the more lysergic and kaleidoscopic realms, these four tracks are still succinctly and subtly done slices of music.
the lost art of letting go is both musically entertaining and filled with deep messaging, exploring those totally personal and less tangible parts of life – memories and feelings, family and thoughts, and right on down to those meditative and unseen processes, the beat of breathing, the rhythms of the heart, the biological minutiae and machinations of life itself.
“vitals” is a gentle, shimmering piece of folk-infused indie, a song that digs deep yet retains immediacy, which juggles with the sublime subconscious, those thoughts that often get overlooked as the heart takes over from the head, as emotion overrules logic.
“signals” is a more straightforward piece, almost echoing that sparse pop that the likes of “Ed Sheeran” accidentally stumble across when they are not trying too hard to be clever. But it is “daydreams” that does it for me, a song echoing with the sound of the 80’s new pop scene – think early Aztec Camera and any of the Postcard Records stable, only polished up and re-imagined for the cutting edge of today’s discerning music buyers—a vibe that is carried over into “surrender,” which rounds things off perfectly.
Whether consciously or otherwise, this is someone building a new and fantastic pop sound by standing on the shoulders of the sonic giants who have gone before. the lost art of letting go is brilliantly of the moment, this moment, right here, right now, yet those of us old enough to remember will hear something familiar running through these four songs’ musical DNA.
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