All Day Gentle Hold !

センチメンタルなメロディーが煌びやかに響くアーロン・メイン率いるNYの人気シンセポッププロジェクトポーチーズの最新作!!!

アレックスGやブラッド・オレンジことデヴ・ハインズ、そしてミツキといったアーティストとの共作でも知られるNY拠点のアーロン・メイン率いる人気シンセポップ・プロジェクト、ポーチーズが待望の最新アルバム『All Day Gentle Hold !』を〈Domino〉よりリリース!
本作は、2019年10月から2021年4月の間にアーロン自身の部屋でレコーディングされた作品となっており、アーロン自身は「最もエネルギッシュで、即興的な瞬間を、コラージュした」と語っている。
ヒップホップの影響を感じさせるビートに煌びやかなシンセが飛び交う先行トラック「Lately」が冒頭を飾り、続く「I Miss That」ではセンチメンタルなメロディを披露、その後も全体を通してドリーミーかつエモーショナル、そしてエレクトロニックなインディーロックを展開しており、普遍的で良質な作品が誕生している。
ミックスとマスタリングはグラミー賞最優秀アルバム賞にもノミネート経験のあるハーフ・アライヴのジェームス・クラウスが手がけた。

Aaron Maine delivered his fourth Porches album, Ricky Music, in mid-March of 2020, just as the COVID-19 pandemic was shutting down concert venues (and much more) in the States. He had already begun work on another set of songs but didnt put the finishing touches on what would become his fifth long-player until April 2021. In the interim, he responded to prolonged sheltering by taking a more spontaneous, energized approach to recording, with often chaotic results. Re-embracing the pop-punk and grunge influences of Porches earliest releases, he recorded All Day Gentle Hold! at home with a keyboard, two guitars, live drums, and a drum machine, in the process essentially fusing the cold, brooding electronic sound hed become known for with its often-veiled alt-rock inspirations. The albums invigorated spirit is established in the opening moments, after Maine takes a deep breath and begins the spoke-sung line My vibe has been pretty f*cking crazy...lately. The repeated words crazy and lately are emphatically underlined by a pounding unison of four-limb drumming, plucked bass, fat keys, and backing vocals. The song settles into a steady midtempo dance-rock groove and more repeated rhymes (lazy lately, Whos the baby, baby?) before eventually breaking out a short guitar solo. Guitars have a more constant, rambling presence on the hooky Okay; serve angular, needling purposes on the off-balance Swarovski; and fuzz things up on the records grungy, horny closer, Comedown Song (Gunk). Along the way, shimmery keys and electronic drums add inescapable tension and atmosphere to the singers own melancholy vocal drone, with songs like Swimming Big and Grab the Phone adding unpredictable guest vocal interjections. A melodic pop-punk highlight, the latter songs syncopated guitar riffs and dance-urging bassline are representative of an album that is danceable in its entirety and reportedly designed with live performance in mind. A 25-minute blast of brief, confused, oversaturated synth rock tunes, All Day Gentle Hold! is over before you know it but wont soon fade from memory. ~ Marcy Donelson