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Sold Date:
January 21, 2020
Start Date:
August 29, 2019
Final Price:
$24.99
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Store Categories LEALANI Fantastic Planet / LP NEW VINYL / Dome Of Doom 2019
When a nineteen-year-old releases an avant-garde pop album as assured and engaging as Lealani‘s Fantastic Planet, it’s worth championing. Sounding a little like Broadcast or maybe CocoRosie exploring a DIY hip-hop percussion palette, Fantastic Planet is a consistently enjoyable listen. It’s all composed by a woman who grew up immersed in the world of music production—her father is a DJ who fostered her love of obscure synthesizer sounds—and describes herself as a solitary only child, which allowed her the space to create a sound somewhat free of the influences of peers. The result is expertly layered tracks with refreshingly idiosyncratic instrumentation, flashing and flickering like an neon light beneath stream-of-conscious lyrics delivered at a relaxed cadence. Its fuzzy squiggly synths provide welcome character and personality, and Lealani obviously has an intense familiarity with the L.A. beat scene’s technique and experimental ethos. Fantastic Planet is like a self-portrait in brilliant pixelated flourescents—and in a world where so much music comes only in shades of gray, it stands out.
A1 Lonely Stars
A2 Floating
A3 The Mountain
A4 Broken
A5 The Night
A6 Long Stroll
A7 Slow On The Weekend
B1 Slip Slaughtered
B2 Seas Of Mars
B3 Galant Bloom
B4 Miniscule
B5 All The Fishes Swim Above Me
B6 Trees
B7 Little House