- Indie pop/rock
- Alternative pop/rock
- Twee pop
Comment: the
first remark of mine about this 4-notch outing is related to its
tamed and silent nature. The listener should remarkably crank up
volume to partake. Musically its roots seem to come out from the
cute, twee pop-tinged Swedish indie pop scene (Acid House Kings, The
Concretes, Billie the Vision and the Dancers, The Mary Onettes) which
was particularly popular in the 00s. Earlier influences used to hark
back to the 60s folk music. Cute male vocal lead, retrodelic keyboard
sounds and droning, chiming guitars and bubblegum-ish bass patterns
which purpose was to entertain the listener. On the other side it is
unpretentious to develop indie music as a phenomenon. It is not the
sort of Stereolab and Tortoise-alike ambition to cross its borders
with every subsequent outing. However, those ditties are solid ones,
for example
A Lifetime in the Sun is a blissful shimmer
dedicated to the spring. The outing is a bit in the discography of
the Norwegian-based EardrumsPop. Niko Niko! Is the solo project of
Bergen, Norway-based Nickolai Nilsen.
