The Weight’s On The Wheels
Album | The Russian Futurists
Lo-fi Canadian goes big, with inconsistent results.
Part of the charm of previous Russian Futurists releases has always been the willfully lo-fi nature of the band’s music. The bedroom brainchild of a one-man Canadian music machine by the name of Matthew Hart, the Russian Futurists have over the course of the past decade managed to elevate homespun dream pop into a kind of art form. With his fourth album, Hart has gussied up his sound with the help of big-name producers Michael Musmanno and Michael Brauer and concocted pop songs that lean towards the big and anthemic, as opposed to the more personal meanderings of previous releases like Let’s Get Ready To Crumble. The results are often big and bright—“Hoeing Weeds Sowing Seeds” and “One Night, One Kiss” being among some of the finest pop moments of Hart’s career—but too often the songs are overproduced and blandly forgettable. Stripped of the lo-fi intimacy of previous recordings and coated with glossier sheen of production, the heart and soul of Hart’s songs tends to somehow get lost.
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