The slide guitars have a brittle edge, suggesting the involvement of actual human fingers. On "Sparks", Scally’s vintage-organ keyboard patch is dissonant, mixed right up front, and a little uncomfortable, like a crick in the song’s neck. They’ve stripped back the booming drums of Bloom and boosted the synth and guitars, giving a new physicality to ethereal sounds. ![]() ![]() The most noticeable changes they make here are adjustments to lighting and angles. Their albums might be an ideal soundtrack for daydreaming, but Scally and Legrand seem remarkably clear-headed about their work. Their newest, Depression Cherry, might have the silliest, or at least the most inexplicable, title in their catalog (compare it with the euphonious clarity of Teen Dream, or Bloom, or Devotion), but in every other sense it’s another impeccably measured step forward. ![]() Their music explores the sadness of pleasure, and the pleasure of sadness, and with each record they deepen this inquiry a little more. Part of the joy of yielding to their luxuriant music, then, comes from sensing the comfort of these solid borders framing it.
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