2/7/19
3:11 PM
Shoutout to my good friend J. Lewis for putting me on to this album, heh.
Every so often I change my paradigms for musical preferences, and it seems like I’m in the indie/alt/rock mood this season. Having stated such, I feel like Peach Pit’s Being So Normal has definitely contributed a good amount to that.
This album reminded me a lot of some older indie rock from some years back while utilizing the musical advancements made throughout the years to maintain contemporary qualities in their sound. The calming voice of Neil Smith is accompanied by conventional drum beats and bass lines that the band builds on, but the real fun starts with the not-completely-somber electric guitar tones. Peach Pit was unique for me in the sense that I usually find vocalists to be one of the most drawing pieces of a band, but the sound of the lead guitar rings real goooood and I felt that it was the main attraction for the listeners, and they capitalize on that very cleverly, emphasizing the riffs, licks, and solos with volume and accent.
The album itself and the band’s sound feels paradoxically deconstructed— while you can pick apart each instrument and focus on one part, the whole band feels orchestrated into a compound mixture to create an atmosphere of cacophonous harmony. The track listing to the band’s first LP starts out in a more moving pace, and slows down a little after the halfway mark and finishes on some nice slow jams, which was really nice and traditional; as the album plays on, I felt like I was in a 90’s dance party that you see on TV.
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The lyrics feel like those teenage struggles, the guitar solos inspire some really really light head banging, and Neil’s voice is nice and easy to sing along to, making this album feel like a classic that you can coast up the highway to.
It’s nice.
Listen to the album below: