MBR-062: Delorean Gray “Star Tropics”
STAR TROPICS is the debut album from DELOREAN GRAY, a.k.a. Jacob Chisenhall (Fake Flowers, Mr. Mustache) - a continuation of the psychedelic fairytale begun on the 2016's "Hokkaido Overwash" EP and a musical coming-of-age for a project no longer "side".
Delorean Gray filters bright, wide-eyed pop through a microchip with bleating synths, snappy snares and a general air of lounge-iness that, save for the sound collage aspects of opener "Little Pad" & mid-album "Delorean's Meditation Sequence", certainly never approaches lethargy. Peep the video for "Chrome Bikini" and you'll pick up on vibe pretty quickly: bouncy homespun psychedelia, earnest gesturing towards the pop canon, tongue ever so slightly in cheek.
Read the track-by-track diagnosis from Plasma Magazine or just trust trusted trustbuster Gordon Lamb’s take in this week’s Flagpole:
“Its 9 tracks work so well together in a near-perfect distillation of hazy imaginations of what the ’80s sounded like, vaporwave aesthetics and contemporaneous bliss. It’s full of appropriate synths and a slight amount of self-effacement, but mostly it’s an homage to what used to be called “adult contemporary” pop. The thing is, though, this only works because the influences are so clearly 20th Century. Anything more recent would render this as weak, pandering easy listening. To crib a phrase from a place I’ve forgotten, the tools of the past become the art forms of the future.”
>>https://marchingbanana.bandcamp.com/album/062-star-tropics
