Album Review//LO TIDE – Out in the Wild
Imagine a scene of
water lapping up against a calm shore. The sun is shining like never before but
its heat is comforting rather than prickly. There’s a breeze blowing around you
and on your digital device you’ve got some extra cool music for the occasion.
That music could be
Lo Tide’s latest album Out in the Wild if you were in the right place at the
right time. The Tasmania based artist has their latest record out now for
willing ears and if you’re a fan of the kind of chilled out beats that make an
evening with something (and/or someone) chilled down the local scene perfect
than there is much to enjoy on Out in the Wild.
More suited to the
calm of an evening than the rush of the daytime work pattern we’d recommend putting
this record on when darkness is likely to fall and the sunset is nigh. So often
chill out music can lack those essential qualities of anthemic energy and stick
in your brain catchiness but just because a song works well in the foreground doesn’t
mean it’s always a winner in the background.
Out in the wild is
perfect corner of the eye music, composed with enough attention to detail that
it doesn’t seem throwaway or designed for elevators and produced in such a way
that its beauty can’t escape you. Very often there are guests on the tracks but
the way they are used is not always what you’d expect. Ethereal voices can also
a vocal make and that ethos is used to great effect here.
The songs merge
together well and whilst it be a bad thing to say of other genres that the
songs mix together into a seamless flow on a dance record that’s a complement.
But it’s never the case that the listener feels as if the same beat is playing
or repetition sends you into boredom – there is a sensitivity here that ensures
the music flows in such a way as to seduce you with its quiet grace.
And if you’re still
imagining yourself in the tropical paradise we envisaged at the beginning of
this review then go right ahead and explore – you’ve got the perfect
soundtrack!
Reviewed by Sebastian
Gahan.
