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11/12/2019

Elizabeth Joan Kelly – Farewell, Doomed Planet! (2019)




  • Ambient pop 
  • Art pop 
  • Experimental pop 
  • Synth-pop 
  • Electronic music 
  • Ambient 
  • Electro pop 
  • Post-pop

Comment: it is nice to hear Joan Elisabeth Kelly's sonic experiments and poppy expressions at full sway. Undoubtedly it is a blissful, groovy and heady view on pop music at its best sense. Since the times back in the beginning of the 10s with the onset of such genres as chillwave and witch house the status of ambient music has been changed from the so-called design music to a subject for more melody and harmony-trodden endeavours even if the main theme was dark. Yeah, this 11-track outing hits the way cruising somewhere between profound ambient and more recognised, more comfortable themes. In its most ultimate potentiality – the listener can perceive it during some spans of a few seconds – it could have been ended at a nightmarish threshold over which line unsound fantasies come into one's mind. The aforementioned comfortable themes are all but cheap, self-indulgent ones because they do have intrinsic potentiality for transgressive, ominous mutations. Given the topic of the album it refers also to the doings by a human being both individually and collectively – we have potentiality to build up something beautiful and on the other side we can all screw up. It is full of determined noises, intriguing dynamic rhythms and vivid sonic effects which together make up an irresistible punch of sonic waves. For instance, listen to a track, the favourite of mine, Harm, by giving contemplation about a time to come when such a sort of song would hit the charts.