![]() really wants you to feel her urgent need. She even does a lovely threesome with Grimes and Dido. Polachek ups the ante by supplying her melismatic voice to a sonic gamut from samba to funk to trilling bagpipes. A trained soprano, she’s still a mesmerizing presence across “Desire, I Want to Turn Into You.” Ms. This time, on her latest album, she fillets the nature of her desire splashing her vocal acrobatics from operatic to ululation all over it. The music projects of songwriter, producer and singer Caroline Polachek have ranged from avant ambient pop to artful electro. It’s like he’s dialing in the glories of the past into the surreal present and rightly calls it “dreamy, nautical pop.” The tracks on “A Gilded Age” appears to soundtrack the space age, what with periodic inserts of radio bleeps in the mix and lyrics like “A journey past the Heliosphere of Voyagers and Pioneers,” “.the tides of a colder war,” and “A shot across a distant night, a sea of stars and satellites.” Then again, Life Insular pairs them with music that resounds with shoegaze (“A Polar Bear”), folk rock (“NERVA”), The Flying Lizard x Trio (“Baikonur Beat”), and psychedelia in the titular cut. You’ll fall in love again with these adventurous music makers. The final track, “If You Come Back To Me” despite the blah title, goes head over heels into prime Meghan Trainor territory. The other four starting with “Una” and on to “Clutch” are starry-eyed love croons dashed by hints of sadness here and there - the kind that does not stoop to the level of easy rock. Well, “Here In My Arms” has all the optimism of a wedding song while “Bangungot” aspires to be a quirky art-pop project. Old-time Cafra rears its pretty head in “Saludo sa Pinoy Rakenroller” and “Gising Mga Pinoy.” Truly, “sarling atin!”įilipino indie pop-rock band The Vowels They Orbit write and sing love songs but they’re hardly silly. Rootsy influences show up on the second half of the record with its all-blues setting. The opening track “Panaginip” echoes local ‘90s hard rock featuring lyrics that are simultaneously surreal and funny. ![]() Pinoy rock pioneers Maria Cafra, led by the indefatigable Resty Fabunan, have released their 50th-anniversary album that reflects their bedrock roots, essential contributions to Filipino rock, and forward-looking direction.
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