Calliope Music Rapid Reviews
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Cousins Mike and Nate Kinsella Collaborate Once Again on Twee Emo and Art Pop Ruminations.
The two American Football members decorate clean guitar with gleaming strings and shiny synth pop inflections. Spacious atmospheres give room for descending chimes, subdued drumming and Mike's signature Midwest Emo vocalizations.
Gentle instrumentals twinkle under metaphors of love and divorce. Pristine and steady singing paints pictures of failed marriage, lust and fear. Vulnerable lyrics give insight to unfaithfulness and acceptance in one's lustful ways. Simultaneously, Mike admits fear of losing his partner, despite feeling free in his lecherousness. This back and forth between shameful and shameless intimacy adds an ironic twist, leaving the speaker's true emotional intentions ambiguous.
Regardless, each melody on this album leaves a sense of depth, undefined, but potent. Although not every musical development is met with the same profundity as the lyrics, dramatic tones and shimmering chandeliers of sound create an oddly appealing set of polished synth pop tracks.
Best Tracks: Echoes -- Resurrection -- Rouge Vermouth -- Knife
6/10
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