Wallows are back with a new album! After discussing over few of their previous releases, here at Music Daily we have some thoughts regarding its effect on us.
Welcome to the world of Wallows
Wallows album cover for their new “Model”
Afte seven years of working together as a group, Wallows just released their third full length work, Model. The album was inspired by the three members sense of nostalgia for their years of collaboration, imprinted in each song through a clear yet matured and inspired sound.
The creation of Wallows’ world started almost a decade ago, and never has it stopped improving. Throughout the thin, layered and almost unnoticeable to the casual ear growth, the group has grown to develop a sound that’s easily recognisable and identifiable. So much so that the passage between real world and Braeden Lemasters, Cole Preston and Dylan Minnette’s fictional universe happens in a short second once you click the play button.
The dreamy sounds that have always characterized Wallows’ music inebriates every beat of their new work Model. Through the recurrent theme of love, youthfulness and California nimbleness, the group has once again succeeded in letting us in their lives. However, innovation doesn’t certainly lack. The sound never repeats itself, using melody lines and a huge variety of instruments as the escamotage to keep each song recognisable and unique. It all while creating a strong continuity between one song and another, as well as between the current and latest release.
Uniform and constant, the album presents itself as a strong release for the group, which once again sinks its foundations, proposing itself as one of the most constant, reliable and promising presences in the indie, alternative and dream pop world.
Dull lyricism sets the right vibe
Although lyricism doesn’t shine as the group’s main strength, it all lines up with the genres expectations. In fact, dream pop has never aspired to focus on individual words, much less on concepts. It’s a genre that wants to convey emotions and make you ascend into a parallel universe, even aspiring at making the lyrics as blatant as possible. In this way, the ascent to a light, lilac dusted haze world appears even more immediate and impersonal, therefore universal.
And this is exactly what Wallows are good at. Through electric guitars, almost kitsch melodic and distant riffs that caress vapor wave and its effervescent bright tones, the 80s synthesizers and the hi fi production, Wallows have created a sound that blends perfectly into the pool of the genre, embracing all the influences that best led to the creation of this ambience right from the opening “Your Apartment begins.”
Between nostalgia and everlasting themes
In just few seconds, we immediately transform into the protagonist of a story that’s not ours, yet feels like it. Emphasised by the cover image of a cozy, old living room, songs like “A Warning,” “She She’s An Actress” and “Going Under,” the listeners is immediately immersed in a sense of nostalgia for a history that we have never experienced and that does not directly belong to us. Wallows‘ sound recalls a past that does not exist for the listener, but that in few seconds becomes tangible and feels real. By bringing the listener back to a new but still somehow familiar dreamlike environment, the sound seems to always being able to find its space, beyond time.
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