There's a feeling around Mac Demarco that he's too cool to be doing what he's doing, but he's doing it anyway.
There are many albums released each year that can make you dance every bit as good as this one. What makes it special is that Ninajirachi embeds so much of herself in the wiring through the lyrics and vocals that you feel as though you're dancing in a shared memory rather than an imaginary boiler room. You jump a little higher when you feel as though your friends are jumping alongside you.
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot feels like being put in a pitch black room, the longer you sit in it, the more you realise how much is actually going on.
It's unclear what A$AP Rocky wants you to take from this. Fun at times, unique at others, rarely at the same time.
Leaving behind some of the noise of the debut, 3D country maintains most of what make Geese a unique act in modern indie rock.
Winter adds in a helping more of very memorable lines on this record too compared to projector, but the tone of 3D country is much more playful. This is the sound of a band that are proving things only to themselves.
To have that clarity at the point of your second album is quite impressive.
It seems much of what they're keen to prove to each other is that ... read more