This is an album that I initially took interest to based on a really great first few tracks. However, this 27 track behemoth really runs its steam out sooner rather than later and could afford to lose a lot of tracks, or perhaps is serves better as a compilation than a coherent album. That's not to say that there is a significant drop in quality later on in the album, but once you've heard a few of these tracks it feels like you've heard them all and. Nonetheless I think it's worth talking about a few of the tracks I did enjoy.
My thoughts on songs:
"Yesterday" starts off the album with an explosive collage of sampled sound: drums, horns, guitars, strings, bass, vocals; it's all there and the result is an amazingly catchy and grandiose jazz influenced hip hop beat. The start of the track is so unassuming too, a quiet phrase with just a simple hi hat rhythm and a few simple melodies that suddenly bursts with energy at the call of a drum roll. A pleasant surprise that really gives the album a good first impression.
"Getting Over You" is a prime example of the charm this album offers: its bright, sugary and maximalist but it comes off feeling relaxed and cool. The high piano notes, the twinkles, high pitched vocal samples, high string notes, it really feels like everything in this track is as high as life can be, despite the less optimistic subject matter of the lyrics, a contrast that reminds me of Passion Pit.
"Sometime" is a track toward the end of the album that stood out to me as it felt kind of different from a lot of the other stuff on the album, to an extent. This song features a minimalistic lineup of instrumentation when compared to the rest of the album and has a much calmer, low key feeling to it which is especially expressed in the electric piano melody which ended up being one of my favourite things from this album.
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