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There are as many roads that can lead to an album as there are to Rome, and when in doubt, a few more. The path that JW Francis trod in the direction of DREAM HOUSE has probably never been trodden by anyone. For a few years now, the New Yorker has made it a habit to send his fan base an offer via Facebook six weeks before Valentine’s Day: If you ask Francis the name of your loved one and a special reason why you love him or her, send, he will write a song on this basis.
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A good three hundred submissions later (which of course could not all be taken into account), he has now sorted out the commissioned works, reworked some, and released a record with DREAM HOUSE, which in its bedroom-pop hybrid of jingly and jingly Mac-de-Marco sloppiness and a certain Strokes coolness is already one of the discoveries of the year. The splendid up-tempo drive of a number like “Keep It Cool, Steve” alone lifts you up for just under three minutes from everything that this shitty time has to offer in terms of darkness. Lucky Steve!
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