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| 4.5 superb | makeshiftswahili | August 12th 23 |
Lovely music. What Lennon lacks as a composer he certainly makes up for as an arranger, lots of really nice use of pianos, synth strings, or multiple guitars to reinforce and add to the main melody and harmonic progressions of the songs. The influence of funk and dance music, like the use of syncopation and eliding strong beats is also really effective as well. Also, Lennon is a great vocalist here- certainly much better than he was in the Umpteens, he has good control over his voice, and great presence. These songs are all also great on a structural level- they last almost EXACTLY as long as they need to, and there's a lot of complete musical development and satisfying resolutions even in the pieces hovering around a minute. Maybe they could've been more refined and tweaked slightly, but they still sound so good that it's hard for me to care. Certainly, Lennon is one of the most underrated songwriters of this century, his simply sincere and wittily innocent sense of composition and writing is a fresh breath in the age of apathetic indie where he came from. A shame this guy only got popular in Sweden.
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