EXEK – ADVERTISE HERE
This is an inventive album. The songs are varied in style but gel into a cohesive whole. Fans of the more acts at pop’s outer, more creative, margins could do far worse than check this out.
Advertise Here is the fifth album from Melbourne, Australia’s Exek. Led by writer and producer Albert Wolski, this album presents a trippy, dreamy but sometimes unsettling take on indie-pop.
(I'm After) Your Best Interest comes on like Wet Leg meeting of Montreal. Unseasonable Warmth, Parricide Is Painless and Sen Yen for 30 Min of Violin all combine dream-pop with 80s electropop, with the former’s vocals recalling Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys with Human League’s Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley.Beyond Currency adds Oi Va Voi-style brass whilst ID'edbrings edgy, nerve-jangling violins. Throughout, there are hints of Wire, Devo and Pere Ubu, whilst the rhythms are motorik and there are hints of dub and hip-hop in the production and mix.
This is an inventive album. The songs are varied in style but gel into a cohesive whole. Fans of the more acts at pop’s outer, more creative, margins could do far worse than check this out.
7/10
