Critiques by SwanoDown — Patrick Moran RSS

Hypnotic choral vocals are hushed and slightly slurred, a chillwave incantation devoted almost entirely to the two words that comprise the song’s title. 

Surely but subtly, “Midnight Poloroid,” diverges from its chosen path. 

Over coils of spiny guitar and treated, vaguely taunting, vocal samples, Byrdsong’s liquid fine-grained flow is as much a croon as a recitative, spinning a tale of conscious momentum that fully acknowledges the hurdles placed in all of our paths.

Casey has coupled astonishing breath control with gentle technique, rendering inspirations as disparate as dubstep, hip hop, R&B and funk into hypnotic poetic melodies. 

Black Ship Japan takes its name from the fateful 1853 encounter between U.S. naval commodore Matthew Perry and Japan’s isolationist Tokugawa shogunate.