Brooklyn cousins Tom Van Buskirk and George Langford are two guys who love to tweak, manipulate, intimidate, and play with sounds both organically and via machines. The duo have explored multiple genres over the years, and their bedroom pop project Javelin released No Mas<\/i> three years ago, and in doing so, instantly became indie-tronica heavyweights. <\/p>\n
For their sophomore album, the pair lost the ‘bedroom’ tag and went into an actual studio to record. With more noisemakers at their disposal, the sounds explored become much more vast \u2013 and understandably so. Cowbells, hand clapping, wood blocks, and a high use of samples are all in check, as are well, ‘normal’ songwriting ideas \u2013 something that hasn’t always been at the forefront of Javelin’s songs. The result is a grab bag of tones and influences and never stay idle from beginning to end, amazingly showing even more creativity even if in a more pop accessible fashion. <\/p>\n
An album where no two songs sound the same, \u201cAirfield\u201d is one of the most nostalgic offerings and has disco written all over it. \u201cThe Stars\u201d on the other hand, is a more modern tune and channels breezy harmonies and is one of the most upbeat tracks, dreamy and hypnotic and somewhat close to \u201cordinary.\u201d \u201cJudgement Nite\u201d and \u201cGarth Hudson\u201d are both instrumentals, the former definitely sounding out of their element in an anthemic stadium rock sort of way but serves as one of the highlights here.\u201cNnormal\u201d is anything but, with repetitious guitars and vocal effects. This is one of the most unusual songs in a batch of tunes that are all unconventional. “L’Ocean” is a quick indie dance tune, as is “Drummachines,\u201d though it has a firm ’80s feel. <\/p>\n
Whereas their earlier work seemed more like the band were piecing together random bits and pieces to form songs, here the arrangements seem much more realized. Making full use of the studio, their ideas have more room to grow and have blossomed into an excellent second album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":31558,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[9189],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-43261","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-javelin","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43261","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=43261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/43261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43261"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=43261"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=43261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}