Production was enchanting to say the least. My favorite part is the mix which is so clean and coherent just purely great in the ears impressive for 80s standards.
Love the production, samples were on point, vocals soulful, enjoyed.
*Edit - I've listened to this every day since I first listened and reviewed and it may be one of my favorite albums of all time.
(95 -> 100)
I listened to this while waiting for a table in a packed outback steakhouse. I genuinely thought reading the menu was much more interesting than this. Boring.
Makes me feel like a clueless teenager who went through their first love and first heartbreak again. This made me listen to shoegaze non stop.
I went through so many emotions. Happiness, sadness, grief, satisfaction, euphoria, despair, confidence, laughter, confusion, pride, melancholy are all the things I felt. I've never cried as hard as I did while listening to the outro track. If I could describe this album it would be Eudaimonic.
If I heard any song out of this album in public while I am slightly intoxicated, I would off myself on the spot.
It's so depressing making me think of those dark days which both haunt me and give me a deep appreciation for this masterpiece.
Moonchild was a pain in the ass to go through, but overall I was super impressed with the instrumentation which took this LP to great heights especially how they sort of fit and bounce around stereo and mono. The rhythmic elements were beautiful how each band member had the chemistry to be able to just be in sync with each other as if they've had sex with each other.
There is no originality, no artistry, Garageband level production if you would count slapping a YouTube mp3 on a drum sample as such. Milking nostalgic pop songs this way are reasons why sampling has a bad reputation in music. I would describe this as a tumor her cash grab label wants to put out for the sake of TikTok sounds. There are catchy moments that are ruined from the god awful mixing with the lack of much needed compression. A shame really since Coi has flashes of potential evident in ... read more
Got me closing my eyes and slowly headbanging while taking it all it and shit