An EP released from Lump King delivers a unique blend of soundscapes built with digital textures and it all comes together with not only a sort of smooth undertone and alternative pop approach, but it also has a lot of character to it and that I think is a big part of what you get attached to when you listen to this record.
The Home, Sick EP consists of three tracks and in a way they do deliver a unique brand of honesty and personality but it's really the musical delivery that has a strange way of wrapping itself around you and keeping you right where it wants to because these songs have an avant-garde and slightly outside the box approach to them and that goes for not only the arrangements of the songs but the sounds that are used and how they're built.
This what I would consider a bedroom pop record and the brilliance of it is that it's free. Music like this is not built to conform to other genres or subgenres. It's not meant to follow suit with everything else that you're listening to out there.
This record was created with much fewer boundaries than the norm and I think that's part of what the future of pop is going to become and is already becoming now with this is a damn near perfect example.
There's something vast about it and it's got this expansive set of tones with a bright end outlandish use of synths, keys, vocal effects, and beats.
The beats and percussion are the things that sort of introduce what you're about to hear with these songs and it's a great way to do it because as soon as you hear the beat come in you kind of know you're about to hear something that's a little different.
There are natural instruments infused within the compositions and the way the vocals are performed feel so personal as well as they are also coated in different sorts of effects and a brilliant use of editing that lets them feel semi chopped up but not at the same time.
I love the combination of the almost glitchy feel but smooth and forward moving flow that the songs have simultaneously because that is something that's not easy to accomplish.
One of the things that kind of reached out at me with this record is the mix and this is not something a lot of people will talk about in a review, but I have to just because these songs from next really well. I can tell that there was just as much attention paid to the mix as to the recordings themselves and the performances.
There is an aesthetic that these songs give off and that aesthetic has a certain kind of warmth to it, but it also is a little bit edgy at the same time.
In order to capture that, the mix has to be pretty much perfect, and I feel like the artist behind this project is someone that spends a lot of his time in what is most likely a home studio being free from the world and creating music without walls built around it.
And this is what I mean by making music that feels freeing and expansive.
It's unusual but addictive. It's not what you are used to listening to but it's catchy. It's not sing or songwriter music, but it's personal and honest.
It was able to capture elements of something that felt both robotic but also human at the same time and to be able to adapt such a wondrous combination makes the record feel almost fantastical in a weird way.
When it's over, you have these bits and chunks of songs that swim through your brain and the only way to satiate that is to listen to them again.
This was really cool, and it feels like it was insanely fun to put together.
When you listen to music like this you feel like it was a sort of therapy for the artist so that they could just be alone, doing their thing, and while they're doing it, they're escaping any kind of real-world problems that they may be having.
This was even for the listener, and escape from beginning to end and although it's only 10 minutes long it feels bigger than that.
Definitely take a deep dive into this record and see how it affects you.
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