![]() ![]() ![]() One thing I noticed is particularly prevalent on this release is how they move with each other – often splitting up in pairs to make it feel as though a song is actually two songs merging together to create one, perfectly harmonised mix, much like a good producer or DJ does (listening to this right after you listen to Neil Cicierega’s new album does not engender the whiplash one would think it does). ‘10’ is a celebration of Tricot’s tenth year as a band, and it feels appropriate that all four members take this opportunity to not only display their talents as individuals but show off how much they understand each other as musicians at a point this far along in their career. Ikkyu’s vocals here, too, drift around the mix like she’s just transcended her corporeal form. Agenai positions Hirohiro’s droning, fuzzy bass centre-stage before it's utilised as a platform for the rest of the band to exhale in unison. ![]() Lead single ‘Omae’ does this with its drum track Yoshida Yusuke opens the record with an intense, stuttered march – laced with screeching guitar feedback – that doesn’t set you on the edge of your seat so much as it makes you forget you’re sitting on one, and then it ends right before its presence begins to feel overbearing. By this I mean that Tricot recognise when they’ve come up with a stunning riff or groove and they let it unfold and spiral into three or four minutes of inimitable, unassailable math rock class. The tricotness on display here is further augmented by a heretofore untapped level of ingenuity that prioritises memorable melodies and a faithfulness to good ideas where less experienced groups would fail to realise they’re onto something special, discarding it before it has a chance to lodge itself in the hippocampuses of nerds across the globe. Its outline looks like power-pop but it’s coloured in with rhythmic complexity and jazzy chord progressions enough that it stands out like a particularly scintillating diamond in a vault of more boring but no less authentic diamonds. Tricot’s second album this year is a cohesive, wildly entertaining effort. Why doesn’t this website listen to Tricot much? The best band in the world lends itself to a whole bunch of platitudes and this-doesn’t-mean-anythingisms so even though the last skerrick of reviewing skill I have left has all but defenestrated itself off the Harukas 300 I still feel compelled to say shit like “my brain doesn’t understand what’s going on here but my body and my soul does” and “why isn’t there more whistled melodies in math rock?” ![]() Review Summary: has anyone seen the duolingo owl recently? i have a proposition ![]()
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