Yes, how should pop sound when the world goes down? I ask myself the question with every record that I review – but automatic ask here. “What do you stand for?” Singing front woman Izzy Glaudini in the title track – and I have no idea. That’s why I hear this album to somehow find a meaning in life.
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For example, it could be that when listening to the third work of the Synthie trio from Los Angeles, it can happen that you dance through your apartment. Or Wabert. The hyperminimalistic songs have given the New York producer Loren Humphrey a new old vintage aesthetics that makes the songs act like creepy, beautiful old memories.
Have I heard that before? Quite certainly not. But a song like “Smog Summer” sounds as if you had already pulled it out of the record collection of your own grandparents, “Black Box”, on the other hand, puts his listeners: D bondage directly into a bulging neo-noir film. The sunny California can also be damn dark – and automatic catches this sound perfectly.
This review first appeared in the MusikExpress 10/2025.