9.3
/Anti-folk, Indie folk, Power pop, Dream pop, Alternative rock, Singer-songwriter, Folk indie, Experimental indie/
Comment: firstly, this 9-track album could be managed in a more long-running way to acquire even a more sympathetic outlook and appealing output. Indeed, the longest track (The Good Skirt) represented on this 9-track album will be switched off at 1.52. The compositions are recorded at home based on more or less rough guitar strums which are backed up with slight synth whiffs, "accidental" samples and sonic effects, however, emotionally resulting in opposite ways, expressing himself at times in a soothing, at times in a more urging, uplifting way. In conclusion, Bryn Bowen is a very skillful musician of expressing his thoughts through a wide scope of variable moods and soundscapes, through his urges and daydreams. By the way, he runs the Giant Manilow Records and in association with it he is a key member of the “New Rock” Collective which embraces the likes of Shocked Elevator Family, Gentle Friendly, The Reverends, Hell Brown Kids, Brothers Garcia, and Bleeding Judges (which by its whimsical aesthetical approach can freely be compared with the Elephant Six Collective across the Atlantic).