Lontalius the fifth album is successful and strikingly ripened »PopMatters

Eddie Johnston began producing music in the first teenager, but he was not even 17 years old, as one of his projects, Lunales (also has an electronic project called Race Bayon). In his first album, I will forget 17He began to refine the sound of EMO and R&B inspired. Now in the late twenties, the New Zealand product has reached another milestone with full fifth length, How can we win when we are honest?! The new album appears in the minimum and captivity, Johnston in a more focused voice. The last of it reflects the growth and represents a high watermark in the growing independent artist’s catalog.

Nearly ten years ago, Johnston built a worship -like follower on Soundcloud. His song “Sleep Thr UR Erts” was especially popular, as she pushed her songs, republished, and redesigned them on YouTube. Fans expanded the sound, slowed the rhythm, adding frequency, or publishing it with anime images. Although the path is short-two minutes-the emotional depth is packed ten minutes for its audio performance. It prevents his soul in a way that frightens most people. His voice has the power of absorption that listens lying, and it is likely to continue to attract new fans.

How can we win when we are honest?! It opens closely with “when the seasons are rolled.” It is accompanied by Johnston only from warm keyboard tones, and it is remembered by a previous relationship: “Remember to wake up and think” Oh, if this love, this can be achieved. “Sadness, regret, and sadness trying to pick up the pieces and put himself again.

“130224” is a useful flowing smoothly to the “runner -up” that was automatically seized, and it is a path inspired by Drake that is not somewhat complete. There is only one section for the piece that arrives and leaves very quickly. To this point, a number of songs feel backward, such as that they are either missing or incomplete. “I became bad,” in particular, leading listeners with a shelter production, just to fade suddenly, leaving more to be desirable.

This defect becomes more prominent at the end of the album. After presenting an incredible infectious song and fully developed with contradictory sections on “Al -Sabbia”, it is a long transfer process for the following reward. Many songs you produce with experience do not feel yet. Not even the final track, “apology/city”, which is characterized by unloading the bombing house, the appetite of the listeners is saturated again. Nevertheless, at least there is consistency in writing songs. But although it is an interesting concept of playing with listeners in this way, the production and sound performance that Johnston puts so great is so cool that it prevents the record from installing.

In a Facebook post on the artist’s page, Johnston shared that he has a frustrating relationship with albums. He writes, “When I head towards the end of the project, I start finding everything a waste of time. It may take a lot of work, energy and mental generosity to create something that someone might listen to, once, while folding washing.” He continues to say how to reach this The matter with this and grew from this understanding. If any consolation for him to continue, How can we win when we are honest?! He is his best work so far.