Mixing such diverse elements as dream-pop ambience and clubland beats, shimmering electronica and spoken word, pulsing dance grooves and spacious moves, 65 Roses is an excellent summation of where we find digital music in the modern age.
If opener One Summers Day is cool, accessible pop, there are other tracks which balance it: the hazy, R&B-soaked I Deserve Better for one, the relaxed pace and poise of Call Me for another.
If the mainstream charts were full of music such as this, maybe more people would take the whole thing a bit more seriously rather than seeing it as the record executives’ joint expense account and pension fund that it currently is. Wouldn’t that be something?
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