Album Review ~ The Angles By The Angles (2023) (Baby Blue)
The Angles is the moniker for the solo recording project of Brooklyn, New York’s Ashwin Prasanna, whose sound belies the fact that his ‘smooth lothario’ promo picture (above) suggests something more akin to Roxy Music tribute act.
Not that the album is devoid of such Ferry-like sophistication. Tracks such as Moon, Emulsion, and Out There best represent a side to the album that juxtaposes the beautiful laconic soft rock-meets-jangle-pop of the Mt.Misery sound with the very slightest of slacker-pop energies to give the album a decidedly American feel.
However, the very best of the album removes all sense of conviviality. Here tracks such as Knitting Without Needles, All Your Life, and You Name A Place remove all lush production and replace it with a fragility born from the infusion of tiny, almost incidental jangled riffs that are drifted as a secondary thought through glorious chiming pop-rock modernity.
A wonderfully assured debut from an act that promises so much more.
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