BOBBY - Bobby

BOBBY - Sprawling, polyrhythmic art/pop debut from this inventive New England indie collective founded by Tom Greenberg is as majestic as it is all over the place...layering choruses and off kilter melodies atop multi-strata rhythms leads to a churning, oddly soothing atmosphere of ambient-meets-psychedelica that's perfect for reclined and inebriated headphone explorations at 3am // Release: Bobby (June 14, Partisan) // Sounds like: the aural equivalent of herding cats as the instrumentalists go off their own mercurial beaten paths while still remaining tightly knit in earshot...dreamy, loosely structured and cerebral, these are impressionist compositions that seem to come into focus as, with repeated listenings, the millions of tiny "dots" create larger, bolder high relief images...Quote: “People listen to things on a superficial level...Bobby begs not to be categorized.” -- Roby Moulton of BOBBY // What we like: seven-minute album opener "We Saw" is a noirish soundtrack score that conjures up both threat and escape, folk/pop jangle welded to an insistent, reeling time signature and angelic choral interplay..."Ginger (Water Bath)" defines the BOBBY aesthetic as shifting, flowing rhythmic patterns spread out beneath the near-chanted vocals spring and sprint in abandon...

BOBBY - "Ginger (Water Birth)" (from the album Bobby)

BOBBY - "Sore Spores" (from the album Bobby)