Max Quinn’s Onomatopenis
Everything about this project is slightly off. I’m going to open proceedings by pointing upward at the title of this post and artist, ‘Max Quinn’s Onamatopenis’. We’re off to a strange start. You’ve now hit play. Was that the sound of someone scratching a record? I think so. Here are some synths tones that I remember only from HelloGoodbye records gone by and a voice full of Ben Gibbardesque nuances. Words that end in exhaled breathes and that same tonally expressive way that made Death Cab records a little bit more meaningful than otherwise. I don’t think Max Quinn (I’m shortening the title from here onwards) goes out of his way to try to hide his Death Cab crush, he even references ‘What Sarah Said’ in that ‘Tiny prayers to father time’ bit, which I thought was BRAZEN MAX, JUST BRAZEN, but then I read the lyrics and he’s directly quoting the song. Please take the time to read those lyrics, it’s actually a very well constructed piece of verse. So when I say that everything about this song is a little off, I kind of mean that I really rather love it. I’m sick of the overpolished sheen of producer vocalists existing within stylistically safe sample packages. This is risk taking and it’s noisy and it’s odd and it doesn’t make much sense because it’s starts from a lyrical launchpad and then pads it out with sounds that follow a thematic course rather than sounds that sound current and sharp. Substance over style, you might even say. There’s a record to follow very shortly.
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