- Alternative pop
- Jazz rock
- Mood music
- Art pop
- Indie pop
- Easy listening
- Fusion
- Post-rock
- Downbeat
- Crossover
Comment: this amusing bunch of
10 compositions is created by a US-based quartet, Mela consisting of
Paul Sottnik (piano, celeste, vocals, acoustic guitar), Frank Valente
(vibraphone, shaker, electric piano), Taylor Ford (electric bass,
electric guitar), and Jake Payne (the drums). I would like to call it
just a fine release of mood music/easy listening based on pastel
colours via jazz, fusion and post-rock threads reminding either Miles
Davis from the end of the 60s or the sublime outlooks of Tortoise and
The Sea And Cake from more recent times. Thirdly, it reminds of
bright elements of azure yacht rock mingled with cool jazz touch from
the 80s sometime. However, it can be admitted partly because it
depends on the balance and burden of a certain composition. Indeed,
the vibraphone and hi-hats are frequently predominant in many tracks
by adding that sort of vamp what could be expected from a fine fusion
of indie/art rock/yacht rock/downbeat/easy listening/post-rock album.
For instance, listen to an astounding track,
The Darker Side.
Truly chill.
