Strange Weekend
Album | Porcelain Raft
Brooklyn-based one-man-band debuts impressively.
Neither as dancefloor-centric as , say, M83 nor as willfully insular as the chillwave crowd can often be, Porcelain Raft's debut album is hazy but accessible electronic pop. Globetrotting one-man-band Mauro Remiddi constructs his songs off of the same general parts list as many of his indie-electronic contemporaries: heavily-processed keyboards, doleful acoustic guitar strums, deliberately clunky electronic beats, all decorated with stray sbatches of electronic noise. But Remiddi has an appealingly androgynous voice that brings actual emotion to his lyrics instead of the usual deadpan irony. Even better, he turns out to be a songwriter to watch: instantly memorable first single "Unless You Speak From Your Heart" and chill-winter's-night closer "The Way In" are the immediate high points, but all of Strange Weekend makes for dreamy late-night listening.
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