One of our favourite euphoric indie rock outfits has just released a brand new album, San Cisco‘s ‘Under The Light’ is a warm and hazy, unhurried collection of eleven songs perfect for a sunny Saturday afternoon.
They start strong on sweet and soft-hearted single ‘Lost Without You’, their colourful and shimmering synth pop soundscapes are wonderfully catching and what made us fall for San Cisco in the first place. The band’s brand new LP strikes the delicate balance between euphoria and melancholy and elevates their alternative pop sound. On single ‘High’ we hear an exciting and laid back sound that perfectly embodies sunrays slowly warming up our cheeks at the start of spring.
Title track ‘Under The Light’ changes the pace of the album, bringing a higher tempo and eclectic, energetic alternative synth pop sound with shimmering vocal harmonies creating a vibrant musical background. “This album showcases the sound of a beloved bastion of indie-pop emerging, growing, and contorting as they explore new collaborations, instrumentation, and song writing techniques.”
‘Summer Days’ perfectly showcases the band’s growth and how they’ve matured as professionals and musicians, speaking openly about their emotions, exposing themselves to those paying attention. On ‘Under The Light’, San Cisco searches for meaning, and stares down the moral ambiguities of adulthood and relationships. Soft alternative pop lullaby ‘Find Yourself Here Again’ gives a voice to that search and lays bare the journey most of us will go through at some point in life. It’s a more pensive, emotive one, possible the most emotive single of the album.
A most mellow, and very relatable, number on ‘Under The Light’ is ‘Horoscope’, which is potentially our favourite out of the eleven tracks San Cisco have just released. It is a soulful and almost jazzy pop sound with a gorgeously wandering soundscape, a truly vibrant soundscape makes the single a memorable one. We hear undeniably catchy rhythms on most songs but most clearly on ‘Family Trust’ and ‘Consequence’, and album closer ‘Into My Heart’ is a heart-wrenching ballad with some great and strumming guitar riffs that perfectly closes this chapter for the vibrant pop outfit!
“As they progress, and the shadows encroach on their island of sun-drenched west-coast pop, and answers to life problems are suffocated by more and more questions, clinging to strength, empathy, love and the redemptive powers of pop-music might just be the only thing that keeps the fire burning.”
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