- Yacht rock
- Art pop
- Post-pop
- Progressive pop
- Sophisti-pop
- Fusion
- Mood music
- Vaudeville pop
- Crossover
Comment:
this 5-track issue comes out from an one-man-band (Richard Blumenthal) from Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
USA and is a moody one with an artsy and ludic approach. It is
admirable to see how Richard Blumenthal transcends the genres or just
commingling them one another while being up to anywhere. A Brief
Disagreement is a vaudevillian tapping on a piano with buried
vocal slices behind it. Windup continues in a similar vein in
the first half of the composition though being soon supported by
shuffly drums and bold bass chords beneath. Indeed, the buildup
justifies the song’s name. In general, it could be said that the
transitions from one song to another used to happen seamlessly and
involving the same elements in some parts of songs. Falling Down
(feat. StarSystems, Michael Riehlman, Benjamin Bailey) gets
caught up in a more progressive pop way with high masculine singing
and high-spirited progressive
rock-related keyboard solos. Hej Hej (feat. Alec Dube)
makes difference as well due to
be immersed
in yacht pop and progressive pop experiments.
One could hear vibraphones combined into bare
and quite rough piano chords.
It reminds even of Tortoise/John McEntire`s involvement in vibraphone
playing. Cyclicycal (feat. Theo Young)
is the most cinematic track getting its wings from yacht rock-infused
easiness. In a word, the
result, which clocks in at a
19 minute is exuberant both
for one’s
soul and cerebral dimensions. By the way, (Die) Blumen does mean "the flowers" in German thereof it is your turn to figure out the album`s similaritites with certain kinds of flowers.