2014-11-14
Artist: Eliot Lipp
Album: Watch the Shadows
Label: Pretty Lights Music
Recommended Tracks: 1, 3, 4
This Brooklyn based producer has created an album filled with late night coffee shop electronica with some club bangers, even some tracks with the classic buildup and release that is characteristic of dance music. The r&b elements are tasteful and help make a more rounded sound. Nice use of traditional instrumentation as well (horns, etc.). To be honest the album feels a little front loaded to me.
Track #1: upbeat and propulsive, gets nice and heavy towards the end
Track #2: Synthy with easy on the ears piano melody at first and then gets crunchy and blown out as it transitions into a pounding club track
Track #3: "The Single". Laid back groove with r&b vocals by Cherub, an electro-pop duo from Nashville.
Track #4: Funky instrumental with a beat. Think "Get Lucky" Daft Punk.
Track #5: Kind of feels like a filler track but not awful by any means.
Track #6: Spacey and sweaty groove, nice and upbeat
Track #7: Music for a film.
Track #8: The only other track with a guest artist on it. Heavy and synthy with dubstep elements.
Track #9: Spaced out club hit, with some interesting sampling but overall pretty boring. Lots of lazers "PEW PEW".
Track #10: Nice mix of the pretty and punishing with clean piano over heavy and blown out synth. Towards the end of the track it sounds kind of like an auto shop.
Reviewed by: Devon Cunningham
PARTICLE
Transformations Live for the People
Built To Spill
You In Reverse
Rachel Goswell
Waves are Universal
GLENN BULTHUIS & THE TONEDEAFS
Greatest Hits, 1977-2007
JARVIS COCKER
Jarvis
The Innocence Mission
We Walked In Song
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