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Artist | Tamaryn
Title | Cranekiss
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 44:21
Label | Mexican Summer Store | 2015-00-00
Catalog | MEX202 Rip | 2015-10-15
Bitrate | 262 kbps Size | 87.36 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. Cranekiss 3:50
02. Hands All Over Me 3:49
03. Last 4:28
04. Collection 3:25
05. Keep Calling 5:30
06. Softcore 5:42
07. Fade Away Slow 4:46
08. I Won't Be Found 3:17
09. Sugarfix 4:18
10. Intruder (Waking You Up) 5:16
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Under the name Tamaryn, New Zealand native Tamaryn Brown has released
material that revels in the lush atmospherics of shoegaze. Her dreamlike
songwriting and soft, narcotic voice have remained the focal points. After
meeting in New York in the early 2000s, Brown and creative partner Rex John
Shelverton - an instrumentalist and producer from California - based
themselves out of San Francisco. An EP, "Led Astray Washed Ashore", as well
as a handful of singles for assorted independent labels, preceded the debut
album, "The Waves", released in 2010 on Mexican Summer.
For 2012's "Tender New Signs", Brown and Shelverton married the debut's
soft atmospheres with more structured songwriting. Tamaryn subsequently
morphed into a solo outlet for Brown, whose 2014 activity included
collaborative work with Drew McDowall on the score to a Brett Easton
Ellis-directed short film/video for Dum Dum Girls' "Are You Okay?".
Following a move back to New York, Brown recorded her 2015 album, the more
electronic "Cranekiss", with Jorge Elbrecht (Violens, Lansing-Dreiden) and
Shaun Durkan (Weekend).
By the mid-2010s, the revivals of shoegaze and synth pop had been around
for quite a while - several times longer than the styles' original heydays,
in fact - and sometimes felt overly familiar. However, Tamaryn enlivens
both by combining them on "Cranekiss", resulting in some of her most
arresting music yet. It's quite the departure from the distortion-laden
bliss of "Waves" and "Tender New Signs", echoing changes such as her move
to New York and the addition of Weekend's Shaun Durkan to her band.
Another key collaborator is producer Jorge Elbrecht (also of Violens and
Lansing-Dreiden), whose finesse with samples and keyboards lends a
retro-futuristic sound, most audaciously on "Softcore," where found sounds
from porn websites and excerpts from the film Paris, Texas commingle with
winding guitars to make shoegaze's eroticism explicit in more ways than
one. Interestingly, "Cranekiss" less showy juxtapositions of softness and
structure are even more striking, with the album's first three tracks
capturing the sensual thrill of the best dream pop and Top 40 singles of
the late '80s and early '90s.
Sweeping and swooning, "Cranekiss" lives up to its name; "Hands All Over
Me" blends caressing synths and pointed funk; and "Last" rivals other
widescreen pop auteurs like M83 and White Sea. Meanwhile, the album's more
traditionally ethereal second side strengthens Tamaryn's kinship with the
Cocteau Twins and contemporaries like Pure Bathing Culture, with songs like
"Sugarfix" and "Fade Away Slow" reinvigorating vintage dream pop's glassy
lucidity and fondness for gauzy imagery. In all, "Cranekiss" is a beautiful
pop fantasia that finds Tamaryn expressing her music's passion and
sensuality in exciting new ways.
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