Sporting a sweet tone, rapid-fire vibrato, an enviable falsetto range and ubiquitous trap beats, You is a honey-drenched pop confection that also boasts some interesting production choices to keep things fresh.
Chris Porter
Mainly instrumental, then, and a love letter to the employment of adding reverb to sound, this album represents huge trips of introspection and simple melodic and tonal exploration – marking it out as something of a one-off. The fact that it all kind of hangs together as one concept is surprising, but it definitely does.
Never anything other than highly-polished and beautifully sung and played, Miénteme is accomplished – and genuinely makes you want to get up and dance. Seductive rhythms and lyrical vocal phrasing come together here to offer something that could genuinely crossover and become something very big.
Complexity combines with pile-driving power to root the song to the floor. The fact that the band switch effortlessly between pedal-to-the-metal and snatches of full-on syncopation makes Backsheepish an exhilarating, adrenalin-soaked listen.
Throughout, the sound is technically pristine and sculpted while the vocals remain very human. It’s glossy and gorgeous.
Fresh, cool and intriguing, I’d be interested to see what Tough On Fridays can do if they only gave themselves a longer run-time on a track…
It’ll hopefully be totally obvious that I thought this album was extraordinary. You’re very unlikely to have heard anything like this, and I actually can’t think of a better way to recommend that you should listen to it than just that.
Most reviews rely on comparison but HTML is pretty unique, and I’m struggling to draw on references. Which makes it all the more legitimate for me to say you should check it out!
It’s a direct song, and a mixture of longing and euphoria and hypnosis. When the drop comes around each time, I felt I wanted it to go on longer – and that has to be a good thing.
Growing Old isn’t the maudlin collection that you might expect from the title. What it is, is an appraisal of knowledge gained and lessons learned. An exploration of feelings and the sound of stock being taken. Best of all, it’s a wander through different soundscapes and states while all of the above is going on.
As arrangements of classic pieces go, this is, by definition, a unique one and it’s always satisfying when the quality of the piece is matched by the ambition of the arrangement.
A tune for right now, fresh and funny and full of life and energy, and hooks. You need to listen to this…