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Remi Wolf: Big Ideas review – slight but vibrant genre-agnostic pop
The Californian’s influences are all too clear, but her deft magpie approach proves surprisingly invigorating on album No 2
Over the course of her relatively short career, US pop musician Remi Wolf has become known for a hypersaturated, genreless take on indie-pop that draws in influences from classic rock to squelchy indie-funk to sun-dappled nu-disco. Her new album, Big Ideas, is filled with small details, such as the cowbell that stumbles through Toro, or the Nirvana-goes-to-Coachella vocal effect on Alone in Miami, that suggest her music is hardly an effort of pop-by-committee. But in an era of interconnected cinematic universes and Easter egg-laden music videos, it’s hard to deny that she’s working in the lingua franca of our time – and, on some songs, such as the anxious Wave, which grafts together hypnotic ska with a sledgehammer nu-metal chorus, that approach yields invigorating results.
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