Recorded music834 entries
Still Flyin' - On A Bedroom Wall
Released: 21/05/2012
Highline Records
After a winter presumably spent hibernating, San Francisco's Still Flyin' emerge with a second record that channels summer in a major key. Anyone who liked Wild Nothing's Gemini (i.e. anyone who heard it, surely) should appreciate this album's 80s-styled synth pop, and it might have you thinking of Broken Social Scene - not just due to the freewheeling collectivity behind it.
For more information visit:
http://highline-records.com/releases/still-flyin-on-a-bedroom-wall/
Buy:
http://highline-records.com/
Watch:
Page [1]
60%
The Skinny“Too deferential to their influences...” It’s a record that, for all its lyrical protestations of exuberance, tends to shuffle awkwardly at the edge of the dance floor...
.
80 %
allmusic“A serious album about heartbreak and sadness...” On a Bedroom Wall is an impressive record from a "joke" band, full of emotion and hooks, which should get them taken seriously by lovers of '80s-influenced sounds done in a thoroughly modern manner...
.
80 %
The Line of Best Fit“Elevates an already great band to the altitude of Good Vibe Heaven...” Fleetingly, you may taste Still Flyin’ Classic. ‘Take these Streets’ and ‘Candlemaker’ are pretty standard fare, layering Rawls’s sidelong, boyish vocals over whisper rhythms and clipped little guitar chords until the momentum runs over..
.
90%
Drowned In Sound“Won’t be matched this year for its pained beauty...” Paints a glorious colour wheel of day-glo neon pop sounds and melancholy melodies. There’s enough interesting, Eighties influenced, sounds to be ‘on trend’ whilst the vocals have the hurt inflection of Jens Lekman...
.
Page [1]
Review and recommend
-
Recorded music
-
Cinema
82% Beyond The Hills 79% Our Children 78% Neighbouring Sounds 78% A Hijacking 75% In the House 74% The Gatekeepers 72% Arbitrage 72% In the Fog 70% Mud 70% Thursday Till Sunday 70% The Place Beyond the Pines 69% Good Vibrations 68% Rebellion 68% A Late Quartet 66% The Stoker -
Books
-
Exhibitions
-
Theatre
88% Merrily We Roll Along 83% The Weir 82% Othello 82% The Seagull 81% The Audience 80% The Hothouse 76% The Pajama Game 75% Passion Play 72% Peter and Alice 68% Children of the Sun 55% Hamlet -
Opera & Dance
90% Mayerling 85% ENO - Wozzeck 85% Don Carlo
Ads
