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Hotline TNT: Raspberry Moon review – love lights melodies through the fuzz
Will Anderson opens up on the NYC group’s third album, revealing an expansive articulacy to his take on 90s indie-rock
And while the lyrics don’t amount to much on the page, when sung in unaffected deadpan and robed in artfully embellished shoegazey noise, Anderson’s elliptical poetics carry a compelling weight. Their trademark walls of fuzz remain, but Raspberry Moon also fields tracks such as Break Right, on which the happy/sad melodies flourish with space to breathe, and the lush Lawnmower, which is practically unplugged (save for a keening thread of feedback in the distance) and utterly lovely for it. Their sound remains rooted in 90s indie-rock’s fusion of noise and tune (the closing track even shares its title with a landmark Dinosaur Jr LP), but Anderson’s articulacy within this soundworld is impressive.
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