An Experimental Release from Sensible War

An album release from Sensible War features a brilliant crossover soundscape that seems to bend genres at free will. This certainly feels refreshing and, strangely, rejuvenating as it delivers such a lush soundscape and unique blending of textures throughout its unfolding.
The DAYBEAU album is packed not only with these outside-the-box and progressive approaches to alternative pop, indie rock, and more, but it also encompasses such a massive character and personality that you just can't turn away from it.
One of my favorite aspects about this record is the combination of edgy and sometimes distorted synth and keys with these almost bubbly and poppy guitar sections. These rhythms bounce off of each other at times and build this atmosphere you end up really getting attached to.
The whole record was endlessly fun and there are more than a few surprises around its corners plus, you can tell that there was a lot of attention to detail during the creation of it. The songs are built with love and there are all kinds of little intricacies here and there that build its aesthetic.
However, throughout all of this, again, you have this personality and this is something that sticks very strongly throughout the record's course.
The reason I'm into this is because you get these bouts of truth and honesty with lyrics that can be pretty descriptive at times and you are able to paint pictures of the situations in your head.
It's been quite some time since I've heard a record that pulled me in and wrapped itself around me like this one did.
Once you are in this atmosphere, you don't really want to leave.
You want to hear more stories and start becoming curious as to what the next song will present because, by the time you get four or five songs into this release, you begin to expect the unexpected.
Don't get me wrong, there is this sort of staple approach and sound to the album but again, there are just so many surprising production styles that give these songs either a fat and deep low-end, or edgy high-end, or just a unique approach to arrangement.
The vocal approach is excellent. He's got a sort of baritone or deeper vocal approach and a lot of times those vocals are doubled up so you have this thick layer of texture that sits upon or sometimes a little beneath all these other layers musically and this is certainly an attribute that becomes alluring as you listen through.
I love the beats across the span of this album as well. The beat work along with all the synth and keys stuff is just outstanding. They create worlds but they also create grooves. half of these songs are super danceable.
This record is definitely a sort of escape. Again, it does blend a bedroom and alternative pop soundscape together by also bringing elements of rock into the picture but it's done in a unique fashion that ends up letting this record be something that was built with fewer boundaries than you may be used to.
When you listen to it you can sense the spirited kind of freedom in the creation process. This is not a record that was made for conforming to a specific genre. None of these songs have a cookie-cutter shape to them whatsoever.
Having said all that, they're still very catchy. There are plenty of hooks that end up bouncing around your brain for hours after the record has ended.
When I say hooks I don't just mean vocally, I mean musically. There are some brilliant hooks and even guitar stuff that sticks.
For me, this was an escape. This record pulls you away from whatever you're doing and puts you in a different world for a bit.
This is an album that you need to listen to from beginning to end to really understand and soak it all in the way it was meant to be.
Listening to one or two songs might give you a little idea of what you can expect but it will give you nowhere near the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.
This is important. This is a record that was meant to be listened to as an album.
It spans about 10 tracks and almost half an hour so it's well worth that nearly 30 minutes of your time to dive into this alt-pop blend of color and edginess.
Definitely take a deep dive into this one when you can and see how it affects you.
I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
