Reviewed by Eric Saeger
Campfire-ready bedroom-pop strummed and crooned by hipster-fringe-pandering Alessio Natalizia, who dazzled the Pitchfork-arazzi with his distortion-washed previous ‘single’ ‘Upside Down’. Aside from possessing a gift for hook (catchy music is back in fashion now?), Natalizia glugs down the usual Kool-Aid, wallowing too long in a pool of nonsensical psyche-chill repetition at the end of ‘Dear Me’, for instance – the Spacemen 3 crap just never gets old, does it? But he’s more-or-less serious about this whole ‘writing songs’ thing, from the sound of it; there are things here that sound like Bread on drugs and Simon and Garfunkel on drugs, leaving the overall impression of substance over style.
Grade: B-
