Good Stuff
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 19 April 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
loving the new rostam album
― flopson, Saturday, 12 June 2021 17:35 (two years ago) link
love the tousled, slightly off-beat vocals on the verse. roadtrip anthem
When the trucks drive byI feel 'em sway us side to sideYou're underneath a blanket on the backseatI'm going station to station on the dial
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kSAfpJtULA
― flopson, Sunday, 13 June 2021 04:24 (two years ago) link
Like the contrast between the delivery of the verses and the chorus on that one
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 15 June 2021 20:10 (two years ago) link
Thanks for the heads-up--this whole album has really grown on me since first checking it out due to this thread!
"4Runner" reminds me both production-wise and lyrically of Kurt Vile ca. "Freeway" and The War On Drugs more generally--a lot of this album nails the feel of a slightly more abstract Vampire/HAIM hybrid, which isn't necessarily surprising but am esp glad he used Henry Solomon on so many of the tracks, someone who I'd only previously heard on HAIM's "Summer Girl" (Solomon paired with those hyper breakbeats on "Kinney" is a big highlight for me).
Am way more into this album as a whole than any of the VW records--FWIW, so far this year, the only three 'indie' rock/pop/folk/R&B/w/e albums to wow me so far have been Buck Meek, Spirit Of The Beehive and now Changephobia (what a clunker of a title though, although I will concede that "Morphophobia" wouldn't have been sung as smoothly on the title track)
― Kangol In The Light (Craig D.), Saturday, 19 June 2021 00:15 (two years ago) link