Tim Fitz – Unscene EP
Hello friends, followers and family (divided into a clean 10-10-80 percent split), today I share you Tim Fitz’s most recent body of work which is actually his fourth EP. When did that happen? It was only after reading this most excellent mess + noise piece on Fitz (who I have never met and am now reviewing from an impartial and objective setting) that I realised how prolific an EP producer he is but if it took four EPs to get him to the point where he could accomplish this most recent endeavour then damnit Fitz, you did good son. As a complete work it’s superior to all he’s released prior and I think it’s because he’s wrinkled out some of the creases that kept showing up across his previous output.
Instead of feeling disjointed (technically, thematically) these six songs flow through like a river undammed. The sound palette has some uniformity and the record opens with a proper opener and ends with an proper ender. You know? Also, few artists can navigate between organic sound and electronic burst with the surefootedness that Fitz shows in The Wanderer (Fleet Foxes meets Animal Collective) and Fracture (my personal favourites).
He’s also reinforced the hook in songs like Hospital (and to a lesser extent Happiness Is Tugging At Your Heart) so that there’s a strong pop foundation over which he can apply the snap beeps and trills that typify a Fitz record. In terms of straight up songcraft, these are the best evidence.
This release takes itself more seriously. It’s always felt as though he didn’t see himself as a worthy contender when placed side by side next to, well, any other artist but there’s a sense of confidence and seriousness now that has been previously absent. There’s no technically impressive yet conceptually ridiculous outbursts (see Huhuhuhuhu) and again, I refer you to the resounding structural uniformity to this release as a whole.
That said, I just listened to his exceptional Beforetime EP (now see my best Aus releases of 2011) and I realise that he’s been mental-good all along, so uhhhh….
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