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Kendrick Lamar's "Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers" is more than just a wacky and captivating album; it is a TESTAMENT… ✨

The third album of the Dublin band is full of gothic melodies and jangle pop, recalling albums like "Disintegration" by The Cure or "Document" by R.E.M., as well as neo-psychedelia, shoegaze, the Madchester sound and a bit of the Movida Madrileña —basically it is a reincarnation of an alternative album from the mid 80's—. The themes of these 10 songs evoke the sensation of movement, migration and loss of identity: living in a place that seems to be home ... read more

The interesting thing about this album is its double face: ambient but suddenly industrial; quiet melodies that become cathartic. It's like a magnetic field. Two opposite poles attract each other and form a whole.

It's liberating but at the same time claustrophobic. It's the Baltimore duo's melodramatic dream pop, but with a futuristic Dee-woop approach. Stitches from Phil Spector's Wall of Sound and Laurie Anderson's futuristic poetics are sprinkled throughout each chapter. It is inevitable to not feel something and get lost in the melodies.