Artist- Vulcan Tea Party
Album- New Test 2
Date- March 2014
Country- California, USA
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vulcan-Tea-Party/533770246696291
Soundcloud- https://soundcloud.com/vulcan-tea-party
Genre- Synth Pop, Nintendocore
Album- New Test 2
Date- March 2014
Country- California, USA
Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/pages/Vulcan-Tea-Party/533770246696291
Soundcloud- https://soundcloud.com/vulcan-tea-party
Genre- Synth Pop, Nintendocore
Track List:
1- Spring Time
2- Enticing Simper
Review by Matt
The best nintendocore album of 2014 may have come without a
single breakdown. Volcan Tea Party is a band from The Redlands, CA that manages
to channel the legends of dream pop while still maintaining a strong sense of
individuality. A firm believer in minimalism, VTP’s true glory lies in its
ability to take a single idea and expand it into a breath taking soundscape.
Lonely pianos and bass lines grow and evolve into lush layers of reverb and
full bodied synthesized walls of sound, all topped off with a gorgeous and
hypnotizing lead vocal.
The singing on this album serves a double purpose. It acts
both as an additional layer of notes building upon the relaxing instrumentals
as well as a powerful platform to display the vivid imagery provided in the
lyrics. Themes of existentialism, loneliness, and redemption run through this
album, keeping the message as full and encompassing as the songs themselves.
Lines such as “Your image masticates my brain” drive home how painful the
memories that inspired this album were; it’s amazing that such tortured lines
can be given with a cool, nonchalant delivery.
Overall, this album crafts itself into a virtually flawless
experience that I can’t even bring myself to find a negative aspect of. Long
live the wall of sound.
Final Grade: A+
Key track: Enticing Simper
Final Grade: A+
Key track: Enticing Simper
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