Black Sheep Boy |
I Am Very Far
I've always had trouble categorizing these
guys. It's like indie rock Americana or emo-alt roots rock.
And that's what makes them them, defying categorization and
classification. This album starts right in their wheelhouse,
with big sound that includes stomping, handclaps, multiple-instrumentation
and impassioned vocals. Then they transition right into their
other strength, with a slinky baseline, up front weepy vocals
(a la Chris Isaak) and a great ghostly pop sensibility with
just a hint of humor. The production throughout is littered
with all sorts of flourishes and surprising sound effects and
immaculate layering. I think that's one of this album's greatest
strengths: just the pure sound quality of the whole thing, swelling
in all the right places and dialing it back to strummed guitars
one second and then huge booming sound complete with choruses
the next. And they seem to pull it off effortlessly. With the
constant building to bombastic theatrical heights, this isn't
the album you want to necessarily put on late at night to fall
asleep to, as this is engaging stuff, stuff that almost commands
you listen to every wonderful and varied twist and turn. |
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