I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real
What:
I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real
Who:
YACHT
On:
Popfrenzy / Marriage Records
MySpace:
here
Related Links:
Performing this Friday with Panther (USA), Love of Diagrams and Barrage presented by US VS THEM.
Tickets:
here
Tigerbeat-6 style desktop pop graduates as 'hip' with YACHT - aka Jona Bechtolt one-time member of Portland sensations, The Blow. His second LP on Marriage Records, the conscientiously titled I Believe In You. Your Magic Is Real is a zeigeisty mix of recent blog-house, post-Fennesz laptop smarts and unadulterated AIH - vocal confidence. Calculatedly hyperactive and eminently danceable, these twelve tracks have an eerily 'online' feeling overall; super-produced, fast-changing and arranged like so many MySpace players attached to a spinning sonic Rolodex.
Opener 'So Post All 'Em' serves as case in point, with Jim O'Rouke-sounding guitar loops, Middle-Eastern oud hits and a pitchshifted steel drum bassline. Major radio single 'See a Penny (Pick it Up)' is one part Baltimore hyphy, one part Knight Rider Theme, and fourth track,'Platinum' is a disinterested near-cover of Kraftwerk's 'We Are The Robots'. This passive sampling works a treat until the penultimate, title track, when Jona actually recites so many names as if scrolling down an indie music blog's links list. At House and Indie's after party, YACHT stays straight where Cex does not.
Release: Album
To Cure: An empty dancefloor
Keywords: Us vs Them, Bands, Popfrenzy
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