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Review: 'Pastel Coast'
'Sun'   

-  Label: 'Shelflife Records/Groover Obsessions'
-  Genre: 'Indie' -  Release Date: '4.6.21.'

Our Rating:
Pastel Coast are from Boulogne Sur Mer and are a five piece modern Franco Indie-pop band and this is there second album and follow up to the debut album Hovercraft.

This opens with the modern dance pop of Distance that has autotuned vocals over some very summery dance pop, it's easy to listen too, but I'm not sure how memorable it is.

Sunrise is upbeat sunny pop with guitars that nod towards Prefab Sprout while the synths wash over you as your happy to still be awake as the Sun comes up with slight echoes of Etienne Daho.

Helios follows the loud quiet formula as it builds towards a shimmering slightly gauzy feeling as you wonder if you'd be happy to hear this in the bar they are singing about or not, I'd guess if you do want to hear this, you'll probably be drinking Aperol spritzes.

Aller has some good ambient sounds at the start over a gentle piano figure as a recorder starts weaving in and around the piano figure before some doleful strings arrive.

Retour is like the slowest gentlest Etienne Daho song from Paris Ailleurs before it gently builds towards its peak only to drop into a very calm ending.

Funeral strangely is an upbeat dance pop song with loads of Auto tuned vocals like they are having a big party for the departed making sure to properly dance on the grave, a very strange song.

Dial is a cool slice of upbeat pop and sounds like a lot of fun. Rendezvous is the sound of another hook-up as you decided to tell the object of your desire where to meet so you can have that brief encounter, this has some cool acoustic guitars and lots of whistling like they think Roger Whitaker is a super cool influence, somehow this makes this for me one of the best songs on the album.

Sunset is the first single from the album and like much of the album it sounds like its a real summer pop song as they wait for something to happen and their lives to become more interesting.

The album closes with Radiant a rather lush and luxuriant tune that sounds a bit like Air meets Popincourt as they hope that they have found someone who they truly feel is Radiant.

Find out more at https://www.facebook.com/pastelcoast https://pastelcoast.bandcamp.com/ https://shelfliferecords.bandcamp.com/


  author: simonovitch

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