- Art pop
- Post-pop
- Noise pop
- Electronic
- Avant-pop
- Singer-songwriter
- Alternative
- Leftfield pop
- Indie
- Experimental pop
- Glitch pop
- Anti-pop
- Post-industrial
Comment: The Hathaway Family
Plot’s previous issue before
Having No Alternative was
Spare
Time and it was one of the most outstanding issues in 2015. The
same could be said about
Having No Alternative because Kevin
McFadden provides something similarly qualitative as he has done
before. That’s an obvious killer in terms of harshness and
softness, in terms of still life and noise keeping on to drift
somewhere between the pop scene and underground undercurrents.
Because of that
Having No
Alternative, and
Sparing Time represent the true
essence of nowadays indie music. More profoundly, he hijacks obvious,
easily understandable elements of the established culture to
intermingle them with elements of the counterculture and frequently
by its furthermost angles (for instance, at
Mountain). At the
same time it is simple and sophisticated, lofty and oppressive.
Visually it can be transported to a desolate wasteland to accompany a
walker who is trudging across the gothic and magic realism mixed
terrain. At the artist’s Bandcamp site it is stated that he still
has not discovered the meaning of life. It can be assumed it is a
state of tension which forces Kevin McFadden to thrive and discover new areas
around him. By kindred souls there can be drawn parallels with the
Estonian musician Mart Avi whose music is to follow the
aforementioned aesthetical logic and even chronologically does have a
similar path.
