- LP
The Person
Tide Life
Growing Bin
- Cat No: GBR031
- 2021-05-07
海にまつわる個人的な思い出を音として再現したシンセサイザーポップ〜電子ブギー！メルボルン拠点の電子音楽作家THE PERSONが2018年にLOW FLUNG主宰〈MOONTOWN〉から放ったデビューカセットアルバムがアナログリイシュー！ティンホイッスル等のホーンシンセやモーグシンセを使用、キッチュな魅力を秘めたシーサイドポップ。
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After the heaviest of years, it should be time to take a little weight off with the playful sounds of The Person. Mapping its own Bermuda Triangle between dub-pop, sugary synthwave and Balearic boogie, ‘Tide Life’ transports Compass Point to Soggy Bottom, providing maximum fun, sun and bitmap escapism.
The eagle-eared may recognise The Person from the aspirational Italo-rockers Steaming Jeans, whose chalet-ready romp on Bordello A Parigi scored a Winter Olympic gold back in early 2020. Now left to her own devices, Minna Wight swaps the slopes for a jet ski and takes a Wave Race from Summer Bay to Monkey Island across 11 cuts of vintage oddball pop.
Whether she’s borrowing Brenda’s Beach Balls for the dubby daydream of ‘Snail Cafe’ and ‘The Place’, serving lost library cues to SNES club scenes on ‘Barry R Reef’ and ‘Elastic Shoes’ or spinning high school slow jams into synth soul ballads like ‘Nice Feeling’, Minna disguises serious musicianship behind a naive aesthetic. Disarmed by charm, we’re powerless to resist her tidal pull.
Patrick Ryder
The eagle-eared may recognise The Person from the aspirational Italo-rockers Steaming Jeans, whose chalet-ready romp on Bordello A Parigi scored a Winter Olympic gold back in early 2020. Now left to her own devices, Minna Wight swaps the slopes for a jet ski and takes a Wave Race from Summer Bay to Monkey Island across 11 cuts of vintage oddball pop.
Whether she’s borrowing Brenda’s Beach Balls for the dubby daydream of ‘Snail Cafe’ and ‘The Place’, serving lost library cues to SNES club scenes on ‘Barry R Reef’ and ‘Elastic Shoes’ or spinning high school slow jams into synth soul ballads like ‘Nice Feeling’, Minna disguises serious musicianship behind a naive aesthetic. Disarmed by charm, we’re powerless to resist her tidal pull.
Patrick Ryder
本作のアートワークも手がける奇才BASSO主宰のシンセサイザーミュージック名門〈GROWING BIN RECORDS〉が再発着手！幼少期に訪れたハミルトン島での思い出など、彼女の海辺の記憶にインスパイアされたニューエイジポップ作品。ゆったりとしたダウンテンポ「Snail Cafe」のスラップするベースや、「The Place」(sample1)の軽快なパーカッション。ヴィンテージシンセでのイタロ〜ナポリにも通づるメロディメイクは勿論、ダンサブルなリズムが心地良いアイランド・ポップネス。 (Akie)