Shining star of PC Music’s hyperpop microcosm, Felicita serves a strong 2nd solo LP studded with guest spots by Caroline Polachek, Kero Kero Bonito, YoungQueenz and OhEm
Since their self-released 2013 debut and subsequent first album ‘Hej!’ (2018), Felicita has represented hyperpop’s keenest edge of experimentalism at the service of pop. Their accomplished 2nd album ‘Spalarkle’ is a triumph of warped contemporary conventions and a high water mark of hyperpop, dancing around styles and patterns with a very canny feel for light/dark flux and a variegation of textures, from HD to slippery and gritty, rendered with fine attention to spatial and tonal details. In effect they buckle hypermodern pop and chamber musics into engrossing works that are unlikely to trouble the pop markets, proper, but are also likely to endure much longer than hyperpop’s more disposable numbers in the underground/leftfield imagination.
A bunch of lead-up singles chart the album’s broader, club-ready appeal between the bucking electro-house of ‘Cluck’ with spiritual brethren Kero Kero Bonito, to the panel-beaten thunk of ‘Beats’ with YoungQueenz, the squishy funk of ‘Riff Raff’ with OhEm, and peak time hooks of the title tune with Caroline Polachek, but it gets much more interesting with Felicita dares to differ from their peers. Whether in the lieder-like sashay of ‘Can You See The Light Over There?’ or ‘Afraid’, in the sinuous, SOPHIE-esque electro of ‘Sex With Anemone’, or transfixing airborne lightshow of ‘ForeS Hopi’, and Gamers In Exile-like lullaby of ‘Resistance’ they leave much more room for imagination and interpretation than we’d usually expect from the hyperpop scene.
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Shining star of PC Music’s hyperpop microcosm, Felicita serves a strong 2nd solo LP studded with guest spots by Caroline Polachek, Kero Kero Bonito, YoungQueenz and OhEm
Since their self-released 2013 debut and subsequent first album ‘Hej!’ (2018), Felicita has represented hyperpop’s keenest edge of experimentalism at the service of pop. Their accomplished 2nd album ‘Spalarkle’ is a triumph of warped contemporary conventions and a high water mark of hyperpop, dancing around styles and patterns with a very canny feel for light/dark flux and a variegation of textures, from HD to slippery and gritty, rendered with fine attention to spatial and tonal details. In effect they buckle hypermodern pop and chamber musics into engrossing works that are unlikely to trouble the pop markets, proper, but are also likely to endure much longer than hyperpop’s more disposable numbers in the underground/leftfield imagination.
A bunch of lead-up singles chart the album’s broader, club-ready appeal between the bucking electro-house of ‘Cluck’ with spiritual brethren Kero Kero Bonito, to the panel-beaten thunk of ‘Beats’ with YoungQueenz, the squishy funk of ‘Riff Raff’ with OhEm, and peak time hooks of the title tune with Caroline Polachek, but it gets much more interesting with Felicita dares to differ from their peers. Whether in the lieder-like sashay of ‘Can You See The Light Over There?’ or ‘Afraid’, in the sinuous, SOPHIE-esque electro of ‘Sex With Anemone’, or transfixing airborne lightshow of ‘ForeS Hopi’, and Gamers In Exile-like lullaby of ‘Resistance’ they leave much more room for imagination and interpretation than we’d usually expect from the hyperpop scene.
Shining star of PC Music’s hyperpop microcosm, Felicita serves a strong 2nd solo LP studded with guest spots by Caroline Polachek, Kero Kero Bonito, YoungQueenz and OhEm
Since their self-released 2013 debut and subsequent first album ‘Hej!’ (2018), Felicita has represented hyperpop’s keenest edge of experimentalism at the service of pop. Their accomplished 2nd album ‘Spalarkle’ is a triumph of warped contemporary conventions and a high water mark of hyperpop, dancing around styles and patterns with a very canny feel for light/dark flux and a variegation of textures, from HD to slippery and gritty, rendered with fine attention to spatial and tonal details. In effect they buckle hypermodern pop and chamber musics into engrossing works that are unlikely to trouble the pop markets, proper, but are also likely to endure much longer than hyperpop’s more disposable numbers in the underground/leftfield imagination.
A bunch of lead-up singles chart the album’s broader, club-ready appeal between the bucking electro-house of ‘Cluck’ with spiritual brethren Kero Kero Bonito, to the panel-beaten thunk of ‘Beats’ with YoungQueenz, the squishy funk of ‘Riff Raff’ with OhEm, and peak time hooks of the title tune with Caroline Polachek, but it gets much more interesting with Felicita dares to differ from their peers. Whether in the lieder-like sashay of ‘Can You See The Light Over There?’ or ‘Afraid’, in the sinuous, SOPHIE-esque electro of ‘Sex With Anemone’, or transfixing airborne lightshow of ‘ForeS Hopi’, and Gamers In Exile-like lullaby of ‘Resistance’ they leave much more room for imagination and interpretation than we’d usually expect from the hyperpop scene.
Shining star of PC Music’s hyperpop microcosm, Felicita serves a strong 2nd solo LP studded with guest spots by Caroline Polachek, Kero Kero Bonito, YoungQueenz and OhEm
Since their self-released 2013 debut and subsequent first album ‘Hej!’ (2018), Felicita has represented hyperpop’s keenest edge of experimentalism at the service of pop. Their accomplished 2nd album ‘Spalarkle’ is a triumph of warped contemporary conventions and a high water mark of hyperpop, dancing around styles and patterns with a very canny feel for light/dark flux and a variegation of textures, from HD to slippery and gritty, rendered with fine attention to spatial and tonal details. In effect they buckle hypermodern pop and chamber musics into engrossing works that are unlikely to trouble the pop markets, proper, but are also likely to endure much longer than hyperpop’s more disposable numbers in the underground/leftfield imagination.
A bunch of lead-up singles chart the album’s broader, club-ready appeal between the bucking electro-house of ‘Cluck’ with spiritual brethren Kero Kero Bonito, to the panel-beaten thunk of ‘Beats’ with YoungQueenz, the squishy funk of ‘Riff Raff’ with OhEm, and peak time hooks of the title tune with Caroline Polachek, but it gets much more interesting with Felicita dares to differ from their peers. Whether in the lieder-like sashay of ‘Can You See The Light Over There?’ or ‘Afraid’, in the sinuous, SOPHIE-esque electro of ‘Sex With Anemone’, or transfixing airborne lightshow of ‘ForeS Hopi’, and Gamers In Exile-like lullaby of ‘Resistance’ they leave much more room for imagination and interpretation than we’d usually expect from the hyperpop scene.