Music Review // The Home Current "A Point Blank Dream" (Subexotic Records)
The Home Current begins this album with record skip sounds inside of electronica. The first song- "High Priests Of Nothing"- has this bass line and it can feel video game-esque while also a little bit funky with some random vocals coming out. This takes us into the next song which has a great synth part, almost hip hop like beats and then the electronics come in full force to where you can dance. This could almost be industrial if it was a bit more heavy, but I am also reminded of the film "Trainspotting" here.
Synths come in to start "Desert Hoods" and this goes from a place of the previously mentioned "Trainspotting" right into something like "Dune". There is a sci-fi element to this sound, but it also feels somewhat haunted. The clicks and echoes make it feel like we are slowly being watched, perhaps even stalked. Percussion enters with the bass now and this feels like it drops off and then into these more modem-like tones as well. This has gone from this steady line pace to a rattling one and it just feels like artists sometimes do this throughout the course of their album but rarely is it during a single song.
Light, fluttering tones begin "Change The Rebel" with some urgency. The bass line brings back that idea of funk and this just goes from almost sounding like an alarm into a dance number really quickly. There are vocals but I don't feel like they're making words and this has grown to be somewhat trippy as well. The big beats into the higher pitched cries on the next song set the tone for something bold. The tones bounce around now, while also contracting bass synth emerges behind. This moves with a pace as if we are working. "Come Panic" has these deeper bass beats and it just feels like we're about to go to the underground.
Big, isolated tones begin "Dexter" as we go into some funkier tones after that, something from "Beverly Hills Cop" but not quite. Space lasers are fired off in the background and this is just an electronic feeling of being at war within a video game that could be like Asteroids. More spy-type of synths now begin "For Whom The Bells Toll", as this reminds me of Peter Sellers in "The Pink Panther" for some reason. A bit of back and forth in the headphones and then this turns into a swirling, spiraling type of electronic opera on "Once Upon A Ziplock". The percussion makes these big cymbal claps and it just feels like such a fun time now.
The synths sneak in on "Hangtime Patriot" but the percussion feels like it's the real start of this track. Little chirping type tones begin "Cries A Centaur" as the percussion comes in like a whirlwind mixed with that metal banging of the cymbals and the honking of a horn. Uplifting synths now, as if the night is over and we are waking to the sunrise. Higher pitched vocals now- without words- and the bass just makes this feel heavenly. It takes until song 12, but the titular track is here. It has a nice, steady bass line with higher toned synths making it just feel like a groove through the clouds. This is a good song to listen to while walking down the street for maximum confidence.
Sounds behind these beats on the titular track feel like some kind of space lasers, but if you listen they also feel like razors and they could be saying "wizzah wizzah wizzah"- that type of sound which doesn't quite have a word but when you hear it, you'll know it. This feels like it is both the sort of space / sci-fi / western instrumental album you'd hear accompanying a video game or just some far out film, but The Home Current also makes it feel like "A Point Blank Dream" can just exist on its own, without having to be a part of something bigger, and you can just listen to this for the feeling of being energized and perhaps also hopeful.
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