Matthew Compton and Asa Taccone were wise to align themselves with legendary producer Danger Mouse. Though considering Danger Mouse has taken the duo under his wing from day one, actually moving them into his LA home to flesh out this debut, it only seems logical. Trimmed down from an astonishing 100 possible tracks to ten, Mondo <\/i>drops in time for you to play it as loud as possible while driving to the beach, windows down.\u00a0 <\/p>\n
As to be expected with Danger Mouse at the helm, this is an extremely high polished listen of sunny, innocuous, soulful pop. At some points it sounds so crisp and clean, it hardly seems plausible it was human made. It\u2019s the kind of music anyone will enjoy: easy on the ears, memorable in its delivery \u2013though it varies enough from track to track to keep from becoming stale. Electric Guest possesses a highly eclectic arsenal of influences.<\/p>\n
While tracks like \u201cHold\u201d employ accordions (hardly standard fare among this type of sound), others like \u201cAwake\u201d take on a reggae spirit, and when they need to, they can pull out a timeless melody and inject it where necessary, such as the nine minute \u201cTrouble Man,\u201d which is so memorable it never has you checking your watch. Their sound is hard to pinpoint, sometimes sounding like a \u201870s funk band, other times a modern folk-based indie outfit and other times channeling a Motown vibe. Lyrically these songs don\u2019t always tackle the most joyous themes, but the arrangements are always radiating perkiness and endless beaming rays. <\/p>\n
Mondo <\/i>is a disc that truly has something for everyone. The smooth synth work and catchy basslines really illuminate the songs well, and when you add Asa\u2019s charming falsetto and the overall gentle, sugary pop dripping all over this, it really becomes not so much if you like this, but just how much you like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":30970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[8857],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-42650","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-electric-guest","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42650","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\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/42650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42650"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=42650"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=42650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}