White Poppy: s/t LP (Not Not Fun, 2013)
October 15, 2013 at 10:37 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment
White Poppy: s/t LP
One of my most anticipated LPs of the year, after an excellent live performance at SXSW and a truly brilliant tape on Constellation Tatsu. That one’s going to be hard to top, as it’s one of my favorite releases of the year, but this LP is no disappointment. That tape consisted of top-notch ethereal lo-fi ambient pop, and this album is definitely more polished and song-driven, there’s drums and a bit more of a surfy shoegaze sound, especially on songs like “Wear Me Away”. “Today Tomorrow” seems to celebrate and revel in obscurity and mystery, softly chanting “you don’t know me, you don’t” under cascading guitars. “Dead Night” keeps its vocals free of lyrics, burying them under shimmering guitars. “Emotional Intelligence” gets more deep-spacey than most of the songs on the album, but still has a heartbeat pulsing through, before getting overloaded with distortion and suddenly ending. The album picks up from its spacey middle and gets poppy again, culminating in the sedated new wave bliss of “Dizzy”. The album kind of nods off to dreamland after that, ending with the multi-tracked sleepgaze of “Existential Angst”. Well done.
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