“Pop Star Salvation” is the concluding track of don’t get lemon’s new album Have Some Shame and ends the lushly melancholic album on a particularly thoughtful and somber note. As the title to the album suggests many of the songs within explore themes of aspiration and self-awareness, of romanticized melodramatic ego assertion and the limitations that sort of fake it until you make it spirit places on one’s actual achievements. The band this time around masterfully layers saturated synth, processional arrangements and soulful vocals on a foundation of elegantly textural bass rhythms. This song and its knowing observations on the illusion of the rewards of chasing clout as part of the whole game of being in a band or in any other creative endeavor is one of the weightier of synth pop songs in recent years and at the same time has emotional resonances reminiscent of the defiantly resigned tones of Protomartyr circa Under Cover of Official Right (2014). Listen to “Pop Star Salvation” on Spotify and follow don’t get lemon at the links below. Have Some Shame released on April 24, 2024 via á La Carte Records for streaming, digital download and limited edition vinyl.
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