Shapeshifter is the latest album by San Bernadino based Triptides who are, on this album, the solo project of Glen Brigman who recorded everything in his studios in the woods. They recently Launched the album playing a show with the totally legendary Rain Parade in Los Angeles, the vinyl will be available on Record Store Day.
The album opens with the laid-back organ led Silent Life merging swiftly into the background, until the lyrics start to register, they question why everything is so beige, why you haven't created your own style. Eventually a rather Stevie Wonder influenced guitar solo comes in to help us all drift away.
More Than A Friend is an organ led treatise of lust, for the one you've been trying to convince to be yours, in subtle ways imaginable, time for such subtlety is over and he's showing his hand and hoping you recognise the royal flush when he lays those card before you, so be More Than A Friend to him.
He refuses to let Your Darkness bring him down, he won't go full on screamo, he will just remember all the slights and all the bad things you did, over gentle laid-back keys and plenty of snare and hi-hat action his vocals become hazier with every degradation.
Shapeshifter is subtly exploring the differences in approaches to living a good life, that formed a gulf between you, accepting what you say, means we can no longer exist in the same space, over the most hushed lazy hazy vibes, anger has rarely been expressed in as hushed reverent tones as this.
You had a great Connection, but with the times we live in, that Connection could be severed at any moment, this buzzes on a wave of hushed psychedelia, tripping over both sides of the desire is hate that's the fire they may breathe, The fuzzed-out guitars dance the dance.
5 AM it's been one of those nights, you're still up, watching the sun rise, searching for the right destination, a lullaby to free your mind and drift awake, sleep slowly coming, organ notes slow down, a true mellow 5 AM vibe, if you stay up you might just hit the beach.
Altered Visions may bring you down, which in the current world of constantly Altered Visions cracking the fabric of everything, the unreality of warped modernity phased oscillating organ tides flowing by. Calibrated to rearrange your perceptions.
Fly Into The Sun will hopefully not be a flight taken on one of Musk's explosive spaceships, this is almost like you intend to glide there on the wisp of a wind, tree leaves rustling, you try to get up the speed to leave earths orbit, how close to the flame will you get, organs blazing through the night.
The Album closes with Far From Here they made it out of orbit, you are no longer part of his world, you come from different universes, pulsed emanations for a life better spent apart than together, melancholy vibes goodbye.
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