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Lost Boy
Strange, disquieting, and unique…Listening to Lost Boy, it’s difficult to get a handle on the emotional content of his compositions, but they convey the sense that all is not quite right in Lost Boy-land.
The songs sound as if they were constructed on the fly, almost as if they wrote themselves while tinkering with an acoustic guitar and drum machine. Some songs seem to vanish into thin air before a theme is even established; seven songs pass by in ten minutes.
What’s unnerving about them is the keening, falsetto-voiced vocals that suggest a child-like innocence undermined by a world that doesn’t cooperate with expectations. Imagine what Neil Young would sound like if he were ‘lost in the supermarket’, and you’ll have some idea of what is being conveyed.
Harmony-laced voices are layered one over another, creating an oddly angelic choir of weirdness. On first listen, it seems completely ephemeral, but the airy mood eventually sinks in, until the melodies become appealing. I have no idea what he’s trying to tell me, but I hope that it all works out for him.
Grade: 
 
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