Tuesday, March 8th, 2016

Artist: Wall of Death

Track: “Loveland”

“Loveland” caught me completely off-guard.  At a glance, Wall of Death sounds like a modern day meshing of Pink Floyd’s psychedelic prowess with Coldplay’s pedestrian execution.   That synopsis is fairly accurate across the vast majority of the band’s freshly minted LP Loveland – it’s an admirable, but not groundbreaking, effort in modern psychedelic rock that is still totally enjoyable.  However, the self-titled track is in a league of its own.  Sprawling across a mysteriously uplifting atmosphere, the song twists and tumbles through shimmering electronic soundscapes that are grounded in exceptionally executed guitar work and drumming.  The midsection is a thing of beauty – sprightly bouncing along to gorgeous keyboards and synths that almost have an old school prog-rock feel to them. The way that “Loveland” flows from one idea to another is breathtaking, and it makes for quite the sparkling early-2016 gem…one that may even be worth stowing away for those best-of-2016 playlists.

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