Former Lives is the brainchild of the very talented artist Sean Joseph Klassen, a Burlington, Vermont resident who showcases his love for analog synth, robust guitars and melodies you won’t soon forget on this debut EP of six very memorable songs.<\/p>\n
\u201cAlderson Loop\u201d gets the listen off to a highly dreamy start, where a retro post-punk mood unfolds with very pretty backing vocals to complement the swift drums, bright synth and ethereal ambience. \u201cCordon Sanitaire\u201d follows with a more punchy approach that swirls with hazy melodies amid the angelic vocals that are quite stirring in their comforting gestures. <\/p>\n
Sandwiched in the middle is the atmospheric and intricate \u201cOpportunity Dead On Mars,\u201d which floats with a bit of mystery in the brief cinematic, instrumental appeal, while \u201cGoodbye Nothing\u201d gets much more upbeat with a snappy, New Wave-friendly climate that’s quite exploratory and manipulates sound with no lack of electro-pop stabs, too.<\/p>\n
\u201cDear In Headlights\u201d is the final track, and quite possibly the best, using graceful piano and plenty of dream-pop ideas that unfold with a stream of harmonic cautiousness that benefits from more emphasis on drumming. <\/p>\n
Klassen’s interest in songwriting began after a traumatic brain injury, when music helped him sort through how his life was now going to be lived, and he’s submerged himself in it in fascinating results. <\/p>\n
He gets help from Jeff Stuart Saltzman (Menomena, Typhoon, Grails), Sabrina Velazquez Summers (Montclaire) and the vocalists Madison Fenton, Sarah Royal and Denitia Odigie. Together they make for a very unique meshing of indie-rock, dream-pop, New Wave, post-punk and post-rock that ends far too soon.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[10806],"rating":[5617],"class_list":["post-46521","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-former-lives","rating-rating-b-plus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46521","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=46521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46521"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}