He hasn’t grown enough as a lyricist to carry his piano-based compositions, and as a producer, he’s shown a more stylish hand with diva turns and silence than his own voice
Muchacho recapitulates that moment of love’s collapse and catapults out into the companionable lonesome that waits.
Regardless of what plays out onscreen, Miami shows an inventive collective in the act of reinvention, their recorded output transitioning from concepts to compositions to living breathing body-moving songs.
Anxiety stilettos gut-wrenched entrenched psycho-sexual seductive destructive obsessive push and pull over accreting and ascendant deep soul jams
Fans of Girls may be surprised by how thoroughly Owen’s surf, punk and shoegaze influences have been whitewashed from the mix.
The irony of Bish Bosch is that in its extra-terrestrial grab for timelessness, Walker ends up lightyears from the qualities that made his art timeless