More Eaze - Sentence structure in the country (Thrill Jockey) [Alt-Pop]

*** This blog post first appeared in TSMM's April 7th Newsletter, where you can get all the tips (and more) first ***

Brooklyn composer and multi-instrumentalist Mari Maurice Rubio is better known to the music world as More Eaze. She’s been hard at work in the music underground for a while, bouncing around all sorts of TSMM-approved, seriously credible, leftfield labels; keeping things weird, wobbly and wayward with her wild eclecticism - often apparent in single songs, not just over the course of an album.

Thrill Jockey are the latest to support her slow but steady ascent into the wider consciousness, and with the amount of sweeter-sounding alt-pop songs on this new album, if she isn’t careful, she might just start to crossover.

Obviously, the sweet, creatively Auto-Tuned vocals are wrapped up in all sorts of compositional kookiness, splattered with psychedelic snippets, coated with sonic swirls, and shaken by compositional tremors - hell, there’s even a fair bit of Americana squeezed in there somehow. BUT there’s an accessible melodic and vocal sweetness that keeps rising to the surface that should ease the faint of heart into the Eazeosphere. Well, except on a few tracks - LOL. Maybe it was boredom, or just a desire to provoke, but don’t get too comfortable and assume you know what’s going on or about to happen: there’s some occasional abrasiveness, harsh noise passages, a rather random neo-classical track and a bit of free noise to keep you on your toes. And why not?

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Playlist Companion

Find Eaze in the Slow Alt-Pop Playlist.