Project Montreal – Patterns

Within the first three songs from Project Montreal’s debut album, you can see this artist has had an incredibly wide range of influences, from pop to electronic, to rock.

With all of these influences the record could easily have descended into a chaotic, jumbled mess, but thankfully each style is incorporated sparingly and right where they are needed. This creates a very unique and captivating listening experience, involving an incredibly emotional and gripping lyrical performance as well.

While the concept of introducing electronic production techniques alongside traditional instruments may be off-putting to some, there are a number of songs in which you will barely notice their use. Other tracks on the album though are much more electronicly slanted, and will thus skew towards a demographic that is used to this style. (JA)

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