Western Homes is an electronic solo project which serves as an outlet for his repressed feelings of loneliness, guilt and inadequacy. It started some time in 2009 when this young boy realized he was able to convert his pre-teen angst into playful lo-fi synthpop and swells of semi molten feedback that caress the inner ear like a lover’s hand. He soon began to record these sonic experiments and craft a sound that is both familiar and yet wholly unique.
Jingle Bell Rack
rrr196
11th December 2010
12 tracks
35:01
67.4Mb
Season of the Sun
rrr182
3rd July 2010
11 tracks
44:32
45Mb
Are Empty
rrr134
29th July 2009
9 tracks
23:12
50.8Mb
A wonderful little album of whimsical, indie, electro-acoustic-pop. Mixing the best qualities of lo-fi noise, ambient, indie rock, and electronica, Western Homes creates an album that is at once familiar, but altogether fresh and exciting. This is an album that I imagine “the kids” being into, something that Pitchfork or Tiny Mix Tapes might praise if they didn’t overlook CC music. It contains a number of short, poppy tunes with good lyrics, acoustic guitars, synth loops, drum machines, and fuzz. It is, in a word, fun.
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