Kane Strang - Blue Cheese (2016)

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Artist:
Title: Blue Cheese
Year Of Release: 2016
Label: Ba Da Bing!
Genre: Dream Pop, Indie Pop
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 28:02 min
Total Size: 193 MB
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Tracklist:

01. The Web 02:09
02. Things Are Never Simple 03:16
03. Full Moon, Hungry Sun 02:18
04. Run Rings 01:09
05. What's Wrong? 02:51
06. The Canyon Her River Carved 02:30
07. It's Fine 03:06
08. You Think 02:23
09. She's Appealing 03:08
10. Never Kissed A Blonde 02:02
11. Scarlet King Magnolia 03:10

2016 release from the New Zealand-based psych pop artist. Blue Cheese picks up on the rough disaffection of his earlier demo collection, A Pebble and a Paper Crane, which he recorded in a WWII bomb shelter in Germany. Back in his hometown of Dunedin, New Zealand, Strang spent two curious months alone, housesitting for his parents. Re-nested, yet still isolated, Strang composed all of Blue Cheese over those quiet days. Lead-off track 'The Web' channels pummeling bass lines punctuated by a twinkling synth that calls upon microscopic pop principalities of restlessness. Its abrupt ending parallels Strangs own disconnect. 'She's Appealing' weaves Day-Glo guitar motifs into distant, detached '80s garage pop vocals. 'Never Kissed a Blonde' is driven by a slapping delay on both vocals and guitar. Strang's path toward a melody is always surprising, and he never misses a hit-on-the-head-obvious-in-retrospect memorable line.