A new album release from Infinite Cousins delivers a soiree of rock approaches delivered with a psychedelic tonality and experimental style all with a robust set of colors, flavors, and attitudes to boot.
The Nebulous Tremulous album is riddled with outstanding layers of textures and expansive undertones that come together to build this tripped-out atmosphere that bends and mends genres at free will.
This is definitely psych-rock at its best but there's more to it than that also. It's got that vast underbelly mixed in with animated vocals, all kinds of amp sim and distortion effects, experimental sounds that come in and out, and an approach to the arrangements that lets the songs feel like they are alive and breathing.
The release breeds a unique approach and by the time you get two or three songs in, you begin to expect the unexpected which is something you don't often get so when it does come around, it's quite rejuvenating.
This is one of those albums that you need to listen to from beginning to end because if you listen to only one or two tracks, you won't even get close to the full spectrum of what this album has to offer.
There are layers to be peeled back here. You can float alongside the tracks, and sing along with tracks, and some songs are very danceable, there are so many different sides to this record and there is also this spacious almost sci-fi aesthetic to it in a strange way.
Amongst all this fun, there are also some great hooks especially vocally. There's a load of strong choruses, and very melodically based verses that jump out at you amongst all the brilliantly scattered textures the songs offer.
The combination of natural and digital instrumentation here is incredible because it's so well-balanced the entire way through.
What's even more impressive to me, is the energy levels that the record puts out. It feels almost like these songs were recorded live on the floor and everyone involved was feeding off each other's energy the entire time.
This, in part, is why the songs have that alive and breathing approach.
Of course, they had to have gone back and dubbed in some great sin guitar stuff which is a normal approach to anything recorded live, but this record has this live performance style energy to it.
This is something you just can't turn away from because it's so infectious.
The Sounds created on this record are not only catchy, danceable, fun, experimental, and addictive, but they all roll together to create an atmosphere that you fall right into.
Once you're in this atmosphere, you don't want to leave. Once you're headfirst into this album, you don't want it to end.
Luckily, this is a nice, juicy 42-minute album. An album that takes you away from your surroundings and puts you in a whole different place.
This record is an escape and it's something that I can appreciate.
Now, throughout all of this, you also have those pop-coated tones and approaches that also breathe life into the record in a different manner.
This was a very outside-the-box but well-woven record. You can tell there was a lot of attention to detail during its creation, but it never loses that character or that heart that it begins with in the first place. That may be the most important aspect of the entire thing.
This is an album released with fewer boundaries than you may be used to, but I love that about it.
I strongly suggest listening to this record with headphones on because there are many layers to soak in. It's best done this way.
You might miss some of those notes floating through the ethers of songs or some of the pockets of melodic pop that shine through, and you don't want to miss any of that stuff, trust me.
Take a deep dive into this one and remember where you heard it first.
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