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think this might be my song of the year already my word, it’s huge, it’s massive, it’s so big you need to look and don’t touch the glass
do people remember this album? i’ve been listening to it a lotttt lately and man, they cooked on this one. fell apart not longer after, but this one? this one is the real deal.
australia is so cool i wish it was real
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a day late but hopefully not a buck short, sorry everyone i been travellin and haven’t had a chance to sit down and get this review together, until now! so here we are. hello from sunny prague. and speaking of sunny, got a bright ray of indie poppy sunshine here for you all, fresh from the archives. it’s got jangly guitars, lovely voices and a light indie vibe. i think a lot of you will really like this one, check it out it’s sunflower by supersaurus!
what i like
i was watching a really cool video (here) about how emo artists write these super dense and complex guitar riffs using layered guitar. it’s really got my brain a going because i’m starting to hear it everywhere. and you might be thinking oh isn’t that just harmoney, and it’s a bit more than that, you’ve got harmony and synchopation and intonation and all sorts going on. anyway, this song does a great job of achieving a lot of the similar beats to that song design but with the really cool vocals taking up one of the components of that set up. it works really well, with interesting and intricate guitar, bass and harony that are in lock step with a really delicate and intricate melody on the vocals. all together it sounds like a really cohesive and dense bit of song writing, and when the backing vocals tear in towards the latter section of the song you really get a feeling of a song that’s very much firing on all cylindars.
what i don’t like
only thing i’d really say about this is it didn’t really do anything to lay out a contrasting b section. there’s no real bridge or moment where the song lays what it’s doing down, tries something else and then gets back to it, and that can really elevate a track. it’s a shame there’s nothing like that here because i think if it had something it’d elevate so hard what they’re doing.
my drunk opinion
this song makes me want to roll around in grass
my drunk opinion
obviously there’s a lot of songs in a similar vein to this, it’s a well trodden genre, but i wanted to reach for soemthing doing things ever so slightly different. the song i kept coming back to again and again was this; kill me for always by porter robinson and michael clifford which does a lot of the similar melodic dexterity and landing some really cool song writing with what is basically a really simple song done extremely well.
this band is really cool! i’ve checked out a few of their older tracks and there’s some banging songwriting going on here. i reckon this new release is going to do well for them as it’s definitely a step forward in terms of songwriting, and that’s a really cool achievement in itself. artists like this that start strong and get stronger are really fun to watch because you just know they’re going to step it up and up.
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