Ideas are here, but the execution is beyond terrible. William Doyle came out with one of the most explosive chamber-pop records since Julia Holter?s amazing 2015 album was released. On this new album from the UK native, he explores a much more electronic direction with glitch and progressive pop layouts with very indietronica esthetics. For what it?s worth the exploration is there on this record, however, the overall execution is something to be desired. There are some truly breathtaking tracks that remind me a lot of the most recent Julia Holter album mixed with Radiohead?s OK Computer. However, put together this album is a bit of a mess and sonically this album can be extremely disjointed. Still, I think there is actually a really amazing glitch and progressive pop album here if he continues down this road because the exploration is all there it just needs to be put together in a more cohesive and explorative manner than just several disjointed tracks stringed together by underlying similarities.
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