An Impactful Album From STOREBJERG

A new album released by STOREBJREG just dropped tonight, and this album is filled with honesty, delivering a lot of this thick sort of personality along with it, all in the form of songs that are placed wonderfully under the pop umbrella but going different directions in terms of their vastness, cinematic approach, or stripped-down tonalities.

The Songs For You album has a range of emotions that come along with it. Each song stands on its own two feet very well as a single, but listening to the full record from start to finish gives you the experience you meant to have.

"New York" is the first track, and this gives you such a raw sort of energy. It is beautifully put together and does still breed some of that cinematic feel, but has that great pop overtone that reaches into an indie pop area, bringing together piano and electric guitar amazingly.

The way those two instruments flow and mend together throughout this track alone is something that sort of swallows you up.

The track also boasts live percussion and a vocal approach that is almost inviting, in a way.

All of this works wonders to introduce the album simply because it gives you some of those elements and attributes that a lot of the record ends up delivering.

Again, this is a full album experience. Although there are songs that give you some great Staples, listening to the full record is an absolute must for this one.

Songs like "Little Guy" have a spaciousness to them, but more of a stripped-down field where percussion and certain kinds of vocals are there in the distance. They sit in the far background, giving a depth to the song while guitars and vocals take the forefront.

Those percussive elements are drenched in the reverb effect, and it somehow pushes the emotion of the song itself as well.

This is a track that, to me, felt a little bit more stripped down, but for good reason.

The album certainly does not go without its experimental touches as well.

There are definitely some surprises in the production and approach throughout the record, and songs like the title track, "Songs For You", serve as a great example.

The entire first 4 minutes of this single showcase a much more stripped-down, folk, and singer-songwriter feel. The vocal tracks are doubled, which is something that happens a lot throughout the record, adding a great thickness to the texture and tone of the singing, but other than that, it's very stripped down, still with hints of reverb effect, and giving that same sense of depth.

The very last minute and a half of the song becomes bigger. The intensity grows, and you sort of ride that wave. It's very climactic, and the song pours out with that emotional pull, so you end up getting very attached to it.

It's a slow burn and an amazing build, and it showcases how the artist can write songs with great attention to detail in terms of the arrangement and composition. He knows where he's going when the song begins. The song isn't going to end in the same place it started, but he has a vision, and when it gets there, it's huge.

These are some of the strongest elements about songwriting on the release.

They're very well thought out. They're mapped out in a sense that doesn't take away from the emotion or performance whatsoever, but rather helps add to them so that the moments that are meant to have a higher intensity come through exactly the way they should.

All in all, this was a gorgeous record. There's a lot to soak in, and I suggest doing it with headphones, which is what I always do when it comes to a record of this sort of layered tonality.

There's a lot of different acoustic and electric instrumentation, the vocals are always giving this personal sort of performance, even though they are double-tracked a lot, and you end up getting swallowed up by this release.

This is a record that takes its time. It takes you where you want to go, but it takes you for the entire journey, and you don't want to miss out on any of that.

It's not the kind of record you skip around. It's the kind of record you go through in one shot

Trust me, it's worth it.

So, as I said before, put headphones on, lean back and enjoy this very personal, honest, personality-riddled record, and you will not soon be disappointed.

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