Fitz and the Tantrums - Songs for a Break Up Volume 1

I'm really diggin the bari sax on the first track but that is just super bias because I am a bari sax. This sounds like it belongs in the workout montage of one of those movies where the underprivileged black kid becomes a football star on the all-white team. At least the first track does. Oh boy! Further in I'm hearing bari saxes and struck idiophones which are like the greatest combo ever. I'd definitely listen to this album EP again. It sounds kinda like Motown with dreampop thrown in, and it sounds pretty good. 

Fitz and the Tantrums

Time Out - Dave Brubeck Quartet

The first track, Blue Rondo a la Turk, started out sounding like it was gonna be happy but then it turned into the creepy kind of happy like circus music. Its got those jazzy sax interludes so it sounds cool and circus alternating and I like it. I think there's some cool meter changes in there too; the sax sounds 4/4 and the rest sounds triplet or 9/8. This feels like a pretty standard cool jazz album. Each piece seems to have a cool horn lick that's just played over the rhythm section a few times in modulated keys. Its still pretty good, but I'm partial to swing rather than cool jazz and bop and the like.

The Dave Brubeck Quartet

In Motion - Wait For Green

Judging from the first track, Next Wave, this is like a college rock/reggae deal. I dunno why but I also get a numetal kind of feely feel. Not really a good feel either. I'm not really feeling this EP. Feels feels feels feels. None of the riffs or lyrics are really standing out and sticking with me. I think if this was on repeat I wouldn't notice because all the songs kind of sound the same.

Wait For Green

We Are The Same Machine - The Frequency

I like this so far, its pretty chill. I hear bells, and I have a hardon for struck idiophones, so there is another point in this album's favor. This album feels pretty light, with feels thrown in. I also like the cool mix of synths/drum machines and recorded instrumentals. I think this is another one of those "walking around at night" albums. Its pretty feely. This album is pretty solid, but I don't think I'd listen to it again.

The Frequency

Meseta - Acoustic

This is just a short EP so I figured I could get it in tonight, considering the last review was on a pretty short EP too. It has a pretty lo-fi folky sound to it; I guess probably the album cover is also pretty lo-fi. There's some pretty simple but still pretty guitar with some cool multipart falsetto vocals over it. It's not really my kind of music but I can dig it. I kinda want to be riding my bike around at dark while listening to this. There's some laughing in the recording, and that makes it feel more genuine because they left a real life thing on the recording, knaw wut I mean?

Meseta