ODIE - Analogue [Sky Blue Galaxy]

ODIE - Analogue [Sky Blue Galaxy]'Analogue' is the genre bending debut album from ODIE, oiginally released in April 2018. 'Analogue' takes us through a range of emotions and explores themes such as growing up, figuring oneself out and striving for creative dreams as an analogue artist in a digital world. Channeling some of his key musical influences, such as Kid Cudi & Fela Kuti, the album acts as a coming of age story and introduces fans to who ODIE really is as a human and artist,

backbeat and a generous dose of strong melodies that will require you to roll your windows down and turn the volume up

The mix of major key melodies and twin guitar harmonies snaking through every track ornament the vigorous riff eruptions and anguished vocals in a sheen of gleaming brilliance that proves an exhilarating triumph to behold

or Neil Young

is no-frills

Through other songs like the intense "Burning Hand" (complete with it's hypnotizing post-punk bridge) or the epic title-track closer

but a vision that looks forward

more precise

the sounds of the vintage Arp were so right for the new songs that they found their way into the atmospheric washes of "Skeletons"

despite not being released as a single in the US

the album reflects on Darnielle’s own troubled past

and the futuristic visions they were tapping into

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