Clairo - Immunity ALBUM REVIEW

-
In the Internet age, anyone can become a star at any moment. They could just have a video or a song that lands with the public, and then they become instantly popular for however long they choose to be. One of those artists was Clairo. The alternative genre isn’t my favorite of all time, but after hearing “Pretty Girl” for the first time, I knew that she was going to be a star. That ended up happening, and with her debut album Immunity, she ended up working with Rostam Batmanglij, a former member of Vampire Weekend, for a majority of the record. So, is Immunity a good debut? Let’s see for ourselves.

Immunity is an alternative album with dream-pop, indie, and electronic influences. The best thing about this record is Clairo’s voice. I’m infatuated with the dreamy vibe and sound that she has, and the instrumentation that’s throughout this album really back my claim up. Yes, this is kind of the samey lo-fi indie songs that could be running rampant on Tumblr, but I feel like this is the most enjoyable batch I’ve heard out of the genre so far. Batmanglij and Clairo are a very good pairing, and quite frankly, might be the best on the alternative scene at the moment. Songs like “Sofia” and “Alewife” are exactly what I like from this sound, and while there can be some improvements on a good majority of the tracks, there’s a lot to like here.

This was a shorter review mainly because my mind was made up about it right when I heard it. Clairo’s debut album Immunity is a showing of the potential of not just Clairo as an artist, but for the genre that it’s in. This was the first main artist I’ve heard of that broke through to the mainstream with this sound in recent memory, and that’s a major achievement, especially for someone at the beginning of their career. Immunity isn’t the best of the lo-fi genre, but it’s a great starting point. I also hope that she gets with Jack Antonoff like Taylor Swift did for folklore in the future.


7/10


Stream Immunity here

Spotify

Apple Music

YouTube Music



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lil Yachty - Let’s Start Here. ALBUM REVIEW

-
Image
I gotta keep holding to my promises about reviewing. I always love it when an artist takes a risk with their material. Whether or not it works out, I usually admire the risk and appreciate the fact that any artist can do something out of their comfort zone. Either way, the artist in question today is Lil Yachty, a rapper that has basically become a joke the longer his career’s gone on. However, going into a new genre out of left field isn’t totally new to rap. Childish Gambino jumping into the world of neo-soul with Awaken, My Love! , along with later projects from Mac Miller and Tyler, the Creator having more jazz influences, have proven that turning to a new genre for new ideas has worked out pretty well. Yachty, however, has turned to psychedelic rock in the vein of Tame Impala for this new album, Let’s Start Here. to mark the new chapter of his career. Let’s get into it. Having stuck around with Yachty during the rough patches, I can easily say that Let’s Start Here. is his best ...
Read more

Kendrick Lamar - GNX ALBUM REVIEW

-
Image
Woah, a new review? After this long? Yeah, sure. Why not? I got some plans in the works to keep this active in some form, and I’ll show off some more details in the post after this! What timing for an album to end up bringing this little site back, even if it’s just for a little bit of time. The last post on here was last June, and a lot has happened in my life since then, whether it’s in music or my personal life. Arguably, the biggest moment in music of the year was the beef between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, which exploded just before this summer with “Like That,” a song off of the first of two Future and Metro Boomin’ albums from this year, WE DON’T TRUST YOU . I don’t need to go into just how massive this beef was (and in still is in some ways), but if you need one major takeaway, I’ll say this: One of the biggest hits of the year, regardless of genre, essentially boiled down to Kendrick calling Drake a pedophile for four-and-a-half minutes. “Not Like Us,” a song where one of the m...
Read more

Porter Robinson - Nurture ALBUM REVIEW

-
Image
I wanna just lay in a field of grass, but I’m allergic to pollen :( I’ve always had a very strange relationship with electronic music. The bad music I’ve heard in the genre has been some of the worst music I’ve ever heard, and the good stuff is some of the greatest music I’ve ever heard. For some context, we have artists like The Chainsmokers on one end, and Daft Punk on the other. There are some subgenres in here too that work. Electropop is one of them, being an obvious fusion of pop and electronic music. In the little community of the AOTY website, the users there have been hyped as hell for this Porter Robinson album, Nurture . It’s apparently his first in seven years, and I’ve only heard one single from it, titled “Musician.” While it wasn’t the best electropop song I’ve heard, it’s certainly an interesting sound that I think can work pretty well. So, with how anticipated it is in the AOTY community, I figured I should take a listen and see what all the fuss is about. Let’s get in...
Read more