Just so you all know, it has been at least a month since I first heard this band, and I am utterly appalled that it has taken me this long to post about them. The shame.
Autolux are the most perfect thing to ever associate with shoegaze; ever. Admittedly, it took me about a week to realize the main vocalist is, in fact, male. With such an allure as that, who wouldn't wanna listen to them?!
Future Perfect; which is a very apt title for such an album; starts with the delightful drumwork of Carla Azar on the lazy Turnstile Blues. Probably one of the best female drummers I've heard in a good long while, she certainly makes this band worth listening to. Turnstile Blues builds gradually, all the while retaining it's feeling of making you want to fall asleep, up until the smooth Angry Candy. There is something sexy lurking in the depths of this song, and you won't know until you bother to let it invade your ear canals and slither its way into your heart. And possibly even your genitals.
Subzero Fun is loaded with cuteness; Sugarless is full of the substance the title claims to have none of thanks to Carla's backing vocals and simple guitarwork; Blanket has enough pep in it to make one want to dance around the house in their underwear, and maybe even in the backyard also, before finally coming back down to earth to make you feel like you wanna get stoned and lay about on bean bags to the calming Great Days For The Passenger Element.
The shortest song on the album, Robots In The Garden, strips the underwear-dancing pep from Blanket and replaces it with the desire to jump around in the front row of an outdoors concert at twilight, which carries through onto Here Comes Everybody, minus the jumping and shoving in some good wholesome, well, shoegazing.
The entire cd starts to calm down with Asleep At The Trigger, with such simple yet pretty drumming. Plantlife delivers the standard distortion that is familiar with most shoegaze artists, before ending on crescendo of sorts with Capital Kind Of Strain.
See this is rare; for me to document the little things about every song on an entire cd must mean it's worth a few spins, and even more if you enjoy it.
To those who are uneducated in the joys of shoegaze, I can see why you may find this cd bland. For everyone else, it's a fucking gem.
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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