Dance pop from Australia, which jerks chilly through its own niche to Café del Mar.
Creating your own niche in dance floor tangles is not an easy task. The feat seems to have succeeded in the Australian Russell Fitzgibbon. Under the Moniker Skeleten he pulls through his thing stoically: rested dance pop songs with trippy-percussive foundations that could muck every breakfast café in memory of the legendary café del Mar. Sometimes dance floor psychedelia flashes of Caribou, often also a light-footedness like from Toro y Moi.
But before you sink into chilled monotony, you are torn from the soft flow by carefully curated background sounds. The airy “thesis People” is lovingly polished up with old -fashioned scratching, in “Love Enemy” the fuzzgitar has an appearance, “Viagra”, however, blubbert electronically. Although these sounds were only mixed into the background as a decor, they contribute significantly to Fitzgibbons signature sound-just like its gentle, low-emotion vocals, in which there is an irritating touch of nineties-aor radio pop. Mentalized is an album that does not necessarily overwhelm when you hear it for the first time, but jerking it back until you take it into your arms sooner or later.
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