http://elmomarconi1.bandcamp.com/album/puppies-other-cute-shit
I found this album last summer, I believe, and it's been one of my go-to albums ever since. The filter over the vocals, that happy math guitar, the drums that are just loud enough to be great, without being so loud that you can't hear anything else, it's one of my favorites. This album is actually one of the first ones I found on bandcamp, and I've spent a lot of time trying to find something similar to it. I've read from their facebook that they've been working on some new stuff, and I'm really excited for it. Since I don't know when it'll be out, and I've been checking back to see if they'd released anything for a while now, I can't contain it and I need to review this album.
"Fieldtrips" is an upbeat song that if people sang it on the bus back and forth from a museum, it wouldn't make me want to hit them. In fact, I'd join in. I do it often when I go out with friends, in fact, it's catchy. That guitar is so happy, almost hyper sounding. This song always makes me feel like I'm walking around some sort of tourist trap, and I might or might not be running everywhere. Also, did I mention, there are space lasers in the song? Because there totally are. It's basically the best thing ever. "I Think They Mean Business" combines that same upbeat guitar, those happy go-lucky lyrics with a hint of that feeling when you realize that either some of your friends are getting a little tired of your antics, or you just don't have as many friends as you'd like, but there are enough. There are just enough. So you're happy again, and this time there are gang vocals, and who doesn't love that?
The tapping in "Larry Rogers" is fantastic, and the lyrics are that right mix of happy and sad that I'm sure by now you've realized I'm quite the fan of. At one point, the lead and bass guitar seem to take a trip to the autumn north, you can almost see those orange and red leaves. But then it takes you back to that feeling of before, where you kind of feel like maybe you're alone, and maybe you're most charismatic when you're a little not sober. Or maybe it's just you that thinks that. That's what I pulled from the song, anyways. "Cute Shit" is a one minute eleven second intermission of space lasers and calm guitar noises. There's so much space laser. It's great, I feel like I'm star trekkin'. I just can't get over that space laser, it's one of the best intermission's I've heard.
Well, that's half, and so it seems my work is done. I hope you guys love the album as much as I do, because I really do. I'm so excited for their next thing to come out, I'm so prepared it's not even funny. I'll keep this blog posted for as soon as the next album's out, so that if anyone keeps up with this they'll be able to have that gold nugget sitting right at their feet. Enjoy!
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