A Sun Soaked Album from DISCOVER

A fresh new album from DISCOVER pulls together such an array of gorgeous vocal harmonies, soaked in sun and delivered with a brightness and warmth that has a way of picking you up and bringing you along for a bit of a musical journey. This feels amazing, and throughout it all, you get to pick up on the character and personality that it brings forth, which is plentiful.

The album is called California Suite and it wastes very little time delivering some of that golden and colorful pop approach with its first track, "Number On My Wall".

The song features pop-riddled guitar tones and approaches along with the artist's signature vocal approach which really leans more towards this sort of floaty and dreamy tonality and works amazingly with the music backing it up.

Those two elements together are really what create that warmth I mentioned earlier and because of it, there's a lot of cinematic backbone throughout the record.

This is also an amazing track to introduce the album with because it does showcase some of the staples that you will hear throughout the full record itself however, having said that, I can also say that you need to listen to this record all the way through from start to finish to really soak it in properly.

This is an album that takes you places. The songs almost serve like chapters in the artists alive and if you don't listen to the whole record, not only will you miss certain chapters, but there are more than a few surprises around the corners and you don't want to miss those either.

This is a welcoming record and if you listen to it in full, you can get the full spectrum of what it has to offer.

At times you get elements of vastness or dream pop and the underbellies of certain tracks like "My Vintage Car", which is one of my favorites on the record and indeed show a lot of that lush vocal approach that just wraps itself around you.

The vocals on this record are almost always double or even triple tracked it seems like. I can't be sure because I wasn't there for the recording, of course, but it feels so thick with those layers of vocals that there may be more than two vocal tracks at a time on certain songs.

That recording technique of the vocals are doubled is perfect because they're not precisely lined up creating a thickness and a particular kind of texture that the songs need to give them that dream pop flow.

It all creates such a beautiful aesthetic and once you're in this atmosphere, you really just want to stay there.

You could hear certain kinds of vintage influences in a lot of these songs as well. He is going for this classic undertone and it really works because of the way she harmonizes and sings her vocals along with that classic almost vintage sort of 60s pop tone of the songs themselves.

The rhythm of the songs, the warmth of the vocals, the whole approach to these songs had a very specific aesthetic and all of that came through with shining colors.

The record also speaks volumes for how he was able to bring out this lofty almost drifting kind of sound. This is one of the attributes that grab at you and eventually let you get washed away with everything that's happening musically.

Everyone in this band does an amazing job of pulling together the songs so that they hit that aesthetic with a charm and particular sense of youthfulness.

Singer and songwriter Olivier Albert Brion is the mind behind this project and composes and arranges everything so, this may be part of the reason that the songs sound so particularly warm and welcoming.

He did such an incredible job of bringing the sounds to fruition that the record really whisks you away.

You can hear little hints of sadness in certain tracks, and you can hear plenty of brightness in others. Again, these are a bit emotionally driving at times and I think that's part of what makes them so authentic.

Listening to this album in full will put you in her mind and I think that that is such a gorgeous connection to make when you're listening to a record.

You just don't get it that often so when it comes along you welcome it with open arms, which is exactly what I did.

I suggest checking this whole record out again, from beginning to end, and doing so with headphones on because then you can hear all of that vastness, expansive undertones, and just that natural, flowing, textural approach that the songs give off.

Listen to this album and see what it does for you. See how it affects you. Remember where you heard it first.

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