Review Summary: dream bops & space rocks
Few albums embody pure, unfiltered escapism. I am not alluding to evocations of a simple sense of
driftiness or music that makes you forget your troubles temporarily - let’s be real, downright terrible songs are perfectly capable of doing that - rather, I mean sounds that are capable of detaching and enrapturing at the very same time.
Every Moment, Everything You Need is a record that achieves this. Deserta’s second full length combines fuzzily gazey textures, spaced out vocals and the warmest of synths to conceive a soundscape that is as ethereal as it is fully absorbing.
This sensation is largely due to Deserta’s maximalist approach: songs grow, cascade, and diffuse when and where they need to. The thick, nearly indistinguishable riff that pops up four minutes into the expansive opener ‘Lost In The Weight’ transforms the track from a blissful dream bop into a mesmerising masterpiece, while retaining the sparkling keys that tie the song together. While such moments showcase
Every Moment…’s ambition and successfully develop the shoegaze sounds of Deserta’s debut
Black Aura My Sun into something much grander, the relatively brief ‘I’m So Tired’ presents a true dream pop anthem. Employing a bubbly rhythm, memorably distorted riffs and sleepily stadium-sized choruses, the song thrusts the record into a limelight that is hazy yet all-encompassing. Even when the massive ‘Goodbye Vista’ threatens to take things in too slick of a space-rock direction, its chorus twists enough disorienting gaze-buttons and fuzz pedals to keep the song steadily afloat.
Yet,
Every Moment… is at its very best when it allows itself to get lost in delightful textures with a mere synth line as its guide. ‘It’s All A Memory’ introduces itself with a simple, hypnotising pattern, before plunging into a swivelling array of sounds that astonish and ease at the very same time. While Deserta’s newfound confidence and satisfying establishing of a sound is as delightful as the packaging of their new record, its primary flaw can be found in its specificity: this is an album that demands your full attention, and begs for times of charming dusk or dawn. However, once you find such a moment and
Every Moment… finds you, it’s an absolute drug. Let it engulf you.
