Katy Ohsiek and Wil Bakula make up Portland's Foamboy, and they've created one of the more transporting albums of the year thus far.
The duo's debut, My Sober Dayrdream, is chock full of woozy, whoosh-y mellow pop stuff. It's catchy even if it sounds like it's stitched together by a bunch of components that simply shouldn't fit together. Drums meander and then machine gun; bloops and blorps of fat synth bass plops in and out of the mix; and Ohsiek's sweetly but knowingly delivered vocals slide above it all, as other voices poke in and out of the mix to add dizzying layers to slip and slide around in as you listen.
When I listen to this album I go to an interior space that feels suffused with Spring sunshine, rimmed by darker clouds of sly, sultry funk. It's a nice spot to escape to from time to time.
The album is pay-what-you-want or free right now, so you have no excuse not to give it a try, right? Get lost in their innerdimensional travels and let me know what sights you see along the way.
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