Declan McKenna
What Happened to the Beach?
60--90点相当
正直、一度聴きでは、散らばって、もやもやした感じで
しっくりこない感じ。
じわじわとくるスルメ的な部分も結構感じており
時間を経ないとわからないかなぁといったところ。
https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/declan-mckenna-what-happened-to-the-beach-review-3583876
An English artist fleeing London for LA, eschewing the late winter drizzle for golden sands and emerging with a sun-dappled record is no novel concept. Yet for a now 24-year-old Declan McKenna, this stateside period coincides with an era of personal growth and maturity. On his third album ‘What Happened To The Beach?’, he debuts a newfound penchant for looking inward for lyrical inspiration, rather than at the rusting, imperfect world around him. While his 2020 album ‘Zeros’ and widely acclaimed 2017 debut ‘What Do You Think About The Car?’ both dealt largely with politics, corruption and global warming, ‘What Happened to the Beach?’ sheds some of that responsibility, allowing anxiety to collapse and fade as luridly as the West Coast waves that permeate the songs.
However, opting for a rose-tinted approach to songwriting wasn’t a decision that was taken lightly, with McKenna citing therapy as key in helping him place joy as a lyrical muse in place of the heavier topics that punctuated his earlier albums. Working with Gianluca Buccellati, the producer behind Arlo Parks’ radiant debut ‘Collapsed In Sunbeams’ and parts of Lana Del Rey’s beachy ‘Lust for Life’, this brighter outlook takes the form of a spacier, lighter sonic atmosphere where oddness is allowed to shine.
3rd
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