March 29th - Two Week Vacation (Tummy Boy)

4/5

87.5% - This EP is a wonderful blend of indie rock riffs and fun spacey synths and ocassional glitch effects that really tie this together as something I absolutely love.

Airlock - While I'm not normally a fan of slower songs, Tummy Boy makes even the more subdued songs interesting to the ear, some even reminding me of symphonic metal albums I've listened to, though the mixing is a little more toned down.

My Dad is Josh Gad - One thing that's interesting that I'd maybe like to try in my own music, is that he uses a mix of clean and distorted guitar in single songs, which lend a really nice separation between "verses" and "chorus" in tracks that are entirely instrumental.

Airplane Arms - You can really hear the movement in each track, they're almost narrative in a way, there's an emotional journey led by the music and the way it's constructed. Additionally, the last two tracks serve as a nice slowdown for an album that puts it's heavy hitting songs first, then brings you down for something cozier.

Memory of a Warm Place - I don't necessarily enjoy comparing artists but the last track reminds me so much of Andrew Prahlow's work on the Outer Wilds soundtrack that I felt it had to be mentioned. This feels like watching the stars in the desert on a summer night to me, or watching a beach sunset in the spring when it's frankly too cold to be there.