Entry 227 - City Girl - Neon Impasse

 

Some days you wake up feeling like shit. Your back hurts, you didn't do anything except wake up in the wrong position. You look outside and its a combination of sleet and rain coming down saturating the landscape. The day just sucks. It's days like this that Neon Impasse was created for.

City Girl offers an easily digestible version of instrumental lofi hip hop. Nothing here is challenging on the ears, in fact I strongly believe that it is designed to be this way. The music is meant to fill the role of companionship. Sure the day sucks... but at least it sucks with someone else by your side.

There's not much else to write about the album that hasn't been written about countless other lofi albums. This one does little to stand out from the pack. That said it does what it does very well. The music never tries to step outside of the mold that it sets out to do, and sometimes you just need that. Comfort, predictability... structure.

While not ground breaking in any sense, Neon Impasse has an important role in my collection along other lofi albums. They are the soundtrack to days that start like shit. They invite you in and remind you that this too will pass, as all things do.