Reviewed! Tilman Harley - To Basics
Tilman Harley
To Basics
Orthagonal
Records
There’s
something charming about Tilman Hartley’s debut album. It feels thrown
together, messy, and unfinished even. But it’s precisely this lack of discipline
that makes To Basics unlike any album
we’ve heard yet this year.
It takes the
usual elements of indie – guitars, melodies, instrumentation, arrangements – and
structures songs in a familiar way, but there’s a feel of self-production to
this that makes it stand out. It’s a distinctive approach, and one that might
wear over a long period, but as a standalone release it makes the album one
worth hearing.
There no doubt
that opinion will be divided by Tilman Hartley. Some will see the appeal in the
rawness on show, while others will point to it as a weakness. But the lyrical
content alone is enough to tell us that, if smartened up a bit, the next album
could be something really unique.
Grade: B
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