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An album of contradictions
It's 10p.m., cold february winds burst through the wintery darkness outside, you're inside a safe and comfortable vacuum, quaint solitude and parasocial company surrounds you, the world feels more digital than visceral, nature is merely an aesthetic, being online means being awake, being awake means being online. Culture is the sum of the past, music a collage of untraceable sources. We live in a world beyond mere allusions. Genres are a thing of the past, ... read more
In Kevins' defense
This does sound like the album he actually wanted to make. Unlike its predecessor 'The Slow Rush', which more so sounded like the obligatory sequel to the commercial success of 'Currents', this album completely lives in a world of its own. No more neo-psychedelia, 70s' inspired synthpop, now we have 2000s-reminiscent house-music with Kevin Parker looking like a rave-veteran from the australian outbacks.
Eventhough it is impossible to say ... read more
Never Meant - and the long outro
Whenever I think of this album, I primarily think of the colorful guitar-strings, bouncing along unfamiliar time-signatures, surrounded by the cut-and-dry, fast paced drums of the album-opener 'Never Meant'. It serves as a prime example to show the bands' talent with its youthful energy and adolescent melancholia bathed in the nostalgia of late 90s / early 2000s western suburbia. A feeling often captured by similar midwest-emo acts, yet no one ... read more
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