Labels: self released
Review by: Captain Fidanza
Hold the phones; this is it – the most unusual thing I’ve ever been sent by Collective.
Pitched somewhere between Will Oldham and Arab Strap, this is an acoustic guitar being gently, but incessantly plucked over tales of everyday banality told in such a disinterested monotone that you can’t help wondering if the entire thing might be some sort of avant-garde joke.
Minutiae can be fascinating, consider David Attenborough talking about the evolutionary wing mutations of some crazy African insect, but there’s a very fine line between sensitive observation and talking about the way the sunlight caught your girlfriend’s hair that time you were sitting on the swings in the play park listening to your vintage pocket transistor radio and it was the moment you knew you’d be in love forever and blah blah blaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Additionally, wearing your heart on your sleeve can be both engaging and endearing, but when you’re referencing both Joy Division AND The Smiths in the first two minutes, you’re not emoting, you’re thieving.