Album Review – State Fair by Daisy Clover (Self released) (2023)
Faced with a huge music collection and an abundance of new music that demands my attention, I never really know what I am going to be listening to over any given period of time. Like many, I suppose it just ‘sort of happens’.
Inspired by the latest release by Cindy, jangly lo-fi rock seems to have become my latest predilection with this wonderful album by Long Beach, California quintet, Daisy Clover, somehow managing to engender a gravitational pull on my mouse.
Heaving with a sense of melancholy and emotionality, the album has two primary aesthetics. At its most spectral, the reverb and distortion of the opening title track give a false clue to the holistic ambience of the album with its ghostly, lo-fi gaze inflections just about enabling enough jangled riffs to simper to the surface to provide an unearthly beauty, whereas All The Same drops all such noise to provide a stunning space laden vibe that is similar to the crisp, lucid, otherworldly Gushh / Middleneck aesthetic.
However, the true appeal of this album is its sense of perfectly underproduced lo-fi pop. Coursed with the melodic malaise that is reminiscent of Greg Brady and the Anchors‘ dulcet jangled beauty, tracks such as Riot Girrl, All The Same, Smile, and the simply stunning chime of Mystery offer everything from lucid jangle-pop to crushed fuzz-pop, all augmented by the most stunning sense of dank and dulcet imaginable.
A cultured debut album, this act justify a press of every Spotify, Bandcamp (etc etc) ‘follow button’ you can find.
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