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| 2.5 average | Sputnikmusic excommunicado | October 14th 22 |
I agree with unlog1c, eventhough his mark is harsh. The production overall makes it's a competent album - no doubt, but it doesn't saves it from being annoying to get through. Even the solid material suffers from poorely thought-out runtime or the lack of composing complexity. Most of the worthy tracks are in the 2nd half, and "most" is a strong world in that case - just about 2 or 3 of them. The dream pop sound is too dull. What's mind-buggling is the satirical context of it on some occasions which is still ruined by that all-over-the-place approach. Seems like this album can't decide whether it's trying to be synthwave, glam rock or true to the 80's synth-pop at once. So many collaborations with other artists are making this creative disonnance worse. Besides, there's almost no story with immersive rsamples, which were supposed to soak you into Kavinsky's lyrical hero. The only thing that saves it somewhat for me is Zenith. That track is a nuclear bomb. Outstanding interplay between female vocals on top of male's while being both processed through a vocoder, with an engrossing sythwave rhytm-section, touching poetry about death of nostalgia (as i see it) and a classy saxophone to to strengthen the style. Why the whole album can't reach such height?!
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| 2.0 poor | unlog1c | July 16th 22 |
This is so shit. Kavinsky has become some crappy dream pop with vocals and the retrowave is mixed in in the background, barely audible.
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| 3.0 good | fog CONTRIBUTOR | March 28th 22 |
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