From the stop motion animated music video to the eclectic instrumentation and songwriting, vagaries also brings to “open waves” a sensibility reminiscent of a time in underground American rock when narrow genres all but aimed at the marketing of songwriting built into its conceptualization wasn’t a thing. The song’s lo-fi production is actually one of its charms and lends its blend of psychedelic and indiepop a freshness of presentation, a spontaneity and immediacy that carries you along so that it’s more than six minute length feels like less than half the time. The stop motion animation with colorful figures as the band too taps into an earlier era of music like evoking nostalgia without the sentimental aspects or feeling at all thrownback. Its melody is reminiscent of Ultravox’s “Reap the Wild Wind” but the distorted vocals and the hybrid style is resonant with what Studded Left has been doing lately in its own subversive pop songcraft. Watch the video for “Open Waves” on YouTube and follow vagaries at the links provided.
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