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4/07/2012

Arcade Island - Spring EP (2012)


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7.8

/Alternative pop, Poptronica, Pomp pop, Electronic pop, Glo-fi/

Comment: Arcade Island is the project by Alex Bew, an artist from Cumberland, Pennsylvania providing a handful of glimmering notches. However, stylistically it is a little startling because of mixing up a little bit mawkish boy band-alike vocal lines with more or less alternative pop/glo-fi-oriented sonic layers behind and around it. Theoretically it could reach the chart of the Billboard, or the stages of the Eurovision contest it would be welcomed to poison one of those seedbeds of mediocrity.