An album release from A Projection delivers a very intense and colorful but still quite edgy blend of new wave, synth-pop, cold wave, and hints of industrial that all managed to come together and create this sort of atmosphere that you fall right into and don't quite want to leave.
The In A Different Light album is riddled with brilliant and bright synth textures and key sounds that all bring a vast undertone to a lot of the tracks along with a colorful but still somewhat hard-hitting over time all coated in pop and with insanely danceable rhythms that make you want to move your couch back and start jamming along.
What's great about this record is that it captures this classic underground electronic and synth-pop aesthetic so well that it gives me bouts of nostalgia throughout listening to it.
It's so warm and welcoming to me that this is the type of record I've really missed out on.
The synth pads float through the ethers of some of the tracks and the beats and drums are completely driving along with vocals that deliver a whole different layer of, not only textures but brilliant and catchy melodies that end up bouncing around in your head for hours after the songs have ended.
The only way to satiate that is to go and listen to them again which in my opinion is smart songwriting but I feel like it comes to this project completely naturally.
Throughout the course of this record, what's up baby you can hear the different vintage synth and new wave influences shining through different songs and it feels welcoming.
This is the type of record that you want to listen to as a whole, from beginning to end simply because if you only listen to one or two tracks then you're not getting the full spectrum of what the album actually has to offer.
On top of that, it also feels connective like the songs interconnect in different ways which makes this sort of a concept album.
I love this as well simply because it also reminds me of the old days when you would hear a song on the radio or find out about it somehow, and then, you would go to the store and buy the full album that the song was on.
Once you got your hands on the album you were able to experience the full span of its entirety and in turn it became more of an experience than just listening.
I get the same feeling listening to this record.
This is driving, fun, it's loaded with character and personality especially if you listen to those lyrics carefully, and the energy is unreal throughout the whole thing.
I think that it's the heavy-handed sort of post-punk element that reaches out and grabs at me because I grew up with a lot of this stuff.
It is not only nostalgic to me, but it is also refreshing because that whole feeling aesthetic is totally nailed, and I don't think it's easy to do that unless it's sort of like a love letter to the best that influenced you.
That is exactly what this record makes me think of.
It's like a love letter or an ode to the bands that inspired this whole thing to come together.
Songs the artist grew up listening to. The reasons for falling in love with music in the first place.
There was a lot of thought and attention to detail during the creation of this record, but it never loses that heart or that personality that it starts with and that must be the most important aspect of the whole thing.
All the instrumentation involved has a way of complimenting each other. Those guitar bass tone, the beats and drums, the way the vocals come through, the guitars, and of course the keys and synths.
The whole thing feels alive and breathing in a sense and listening to the whole record is indeed quite a fun and expansive experience.
It's been a while since I let an album engulf me the way this one did, and it felt great.
So, if you're someone that grew up in a certain time. Or that's just simply in love with a particular era of post-punk, new wave, synth-pop, synthwave, and all that, then this record is 100% for you and will certainly not let you down whatsoever.
Dive into this record and see how the songs sort of swim around in the air that surrounds you.
You will definitely be stuck with a multitude of hooks in your head and if you listen to the record twice, you'll be singing along with it by the second time around guaranteed.
Check this out right now and again, try and listen to the full record because it's totally worth it.
Remember where you heard it first.
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