The Los Angeles duo of Clear Thing make an impressive debut here as Ernest Gibson and Erik Frydenborg each play several instruments for a multi-faceted version of pop that\u2019s gentle, ambitious and charmingly cautious. <\/p>\n
\u201cRampage\u201d begins the listen with warm, glowing percussive sounds, as very dreamy vocals enter the bare, psychedelic landscape, and \u201cBack In The Air\u201d follows with a similar haze that flows with a syrupy, hypnotic display that makes great use of guitar.<\/p>\n
Further on into the listen, \u201cAu Natural\u201d focuses more on drumming alongside the playful, beat-driven climate, while \u201cMorro Bay\u201d recruits some Eastern ideas into the extremely light and airy delivery. \u201cEscape Scene\u201d occupies the middle spot, and it\u2019s full of stylish, mesmerizing waves of melody and mood in atypical forms. <\/p>\n
The second half of the listen is populated by the rhythmic and echoing voices of \u201cThe Wind,\u201d as well as the jam band nods of the surreal \u201cLookaround,\u201d which might be the best selection present.
\u201cBig Nightime\u201d and \u201cThe Way To Get Back\u201d exit the listen, where the former makes great use of pocket sax, and the latter fades out with precise reverb that\u2019s acutely stirring. <\/p>\n
Gibson handles vocals, guitar, lap steel, bass, percussion, pocket sax, tapes and keyboards, while Frydenborg plays keyboards, synth, percussion, kalimba, glockenspiel and recorder. They both were formerly in Net Shaker, and as Clear Thing they don\u2019t make any definable sounds, but linger somewhere near abstract pop that’s full of unpredictable synth, frisky hand drums, focused riffs and sparing but effective use of everything else in their arsenal. <\/p>\n
If you want to experience this first record physically, it will have to be on cassette, which is quite limited but does come with a download code. However you absorb it, though, be prepared for a very creative and blurry experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":34813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[10863],"rating":[5615],"class_list":["post-46677","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-clear-thing","rating-rating-b"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46677","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=46677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/46677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46677"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=46677"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=46677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}