Melbourne, Australia\u2019s Car Stereo Wars has the right verve that makes them a brilliant electronic indie act: luxuriantly angelic vocals, for one thing. Add to that some catchy tunes without over-the-top cellophane production, and the band maintains an indie earthiness with measured wistfulness, which has become the requisite for music that leans heavily on synthesizers and programming.<\/p>\n
The group\u2019s music has the magnetism of an instant pop hit, may it be the gloom-pop infused \u201cDearheart\u201d or the uptempo and more folky \u201cRadio Edit.\u201d They maintain an introspective composure in their songs that is undeniably ethereal, even though the music is not built upon towers of layers.<\/p>\n
Although Car Stereo Wars might fall under the electronic\/trip-hop caption, the lavishly used live drums and acoustic guitars repeatedly overpower the keyboards. For Your Comfort And Safety<\/i> surprises with cuts like \u201cBroken,\u201d which purely and entirely consists of drums, bass, and acoustic guitars, and the title number itself \u2013 the album\u2019s gorgeous swansong \u2013 which has solely acoustic guitars for instrumentation.<\/p>\n
Car Stereo Wars, however, is not like an indie-folk act that might use the synthesizers for the occasional quirky drum loop. They accomplish a very sophisticated medley of real and programmed music. In fact, the band goes a step beyond, incorporating folksy cellos to add further complexity, and they are not hesitant to use them even when a song is as overpoweringly electronic as \u201cDearheart.\u201d Safety<\/i> has various painstakingly subtle layers of instruments that beautifully garnish the music, and while all the allying sounds could be attributed to programming alone, they absolutely are real \u2013 lap steel, pianos, trumpet, trombone, tuba, and all. <\/p>\n
The diverse confluence of music on Safety<\/i> gives Car Stereo Wars the credibility to create the expected straightforward pop-rock radio candy like \u201cNovember,\u201d where the band transforms from an electronic act to a pop band with electronic guitars. And with a little twist of the synth element added to the guitar-based \u201cLow Rise,\u201d these two contradicting avatars of the band come together and coexist in accord. The illusiveness of the many layers on Comfort<\/i> makes it a far less dense record than it might seem. At the same time, this album is not completely lacking in posh dreamy numbers either: \u201cDown\u201d and \u201cSmooth\u201d stand out as the album\u2019s lush, psychedelic side.<\/p>\n
For all the hidden nuances and complexities on Comfort, <\/i>this is an album that is as easy as it can get. It is almost impossible not to be instantly smitten by the tunes on this record.\u00a0 This is one masterpiece that\u2019s surprisingly not eccentric. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":30247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[8537],"rating":[5613],"class_list":["post-41899","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-car-stereo-wars","rating-rating-a-minus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/41899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=41899"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=41899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}