Wednesday, April 29, 2015

#1718 Sylvan Esso - Sylvan Esso

Opening track Hey Mami's everything good about this album: that delicate dance around its subject matter, that slithery vocal line, those buzzity surges - a fluttery, lime-dark little world.

I like the sound. In the end, the vocals + skitters is too basic a blueprint to win me over all the way over - the album falls short of that Lorde threshold for escaping the atmosphere of my cynicism on the power of so - damn - many - good - little - moments . . . but it gets close. Hey Mami into Could I Be into HSKT, a silvery skeleton in shabby clothes that just might make it part my door tonight 3.5/5

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