I think I have a problem. There are more and more releases that I don't remember picking up. Or rather that I forgot I picked up.
I was going through my collection and found Unbound still sealed this morning. That's a cardinal sin. In Xorn's top ten commandments of record buying, number 1 is to listen to everything in the collection at least once. Commandment two: if it doesn't move beyond one time then it goes up for sale.
This turned out to be gross violation since Anomaly is quite the excellent listen. This is chilled out synthwave, otherwise known as chillwave.
All of the elements of synthwave are here. The tribute to the 80's analog synths. The fun bleep bloop melodies. The simple beats that drive the song forward but do nothing to stand on their own. It's all here.
What is also here though is a muted production. While that may sound bad on the surface, it does wonders to mellow out the music. Instead of pushing everything in your face like much of synthwave, Unbound has a laid back feel to it.
Of course the songs contribute to this. Many of them have a lazy feel to them, but even the upbeat tracks have a calmer approach because of the production. It's welcome and goes well with the morning caffeine infusion.
Anomaly caught me off guard. I remember liking it from the snippets a few months... years...? back, but I don't remember it being this groovy and catchy. A pleasant surprise, this record should have been unsealed a long time ago.
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