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MH-282 Holobody - Riverhood  Riverhood is the first release from Holobody, the sibling duo of Felix Green and Sea Oleena, two talented artists in their own right who’ve together crafted a masterpiece from elements of gospel, hip-hop, and electronically-propelled folk. Album opener “Unfold” is a sentimental soliloquy, and its seamless juxtaposition first into the playfully rapped “Hurricane Season” and then into the instrumental "Stomp Coda" sets the tone for the genre-hopping on the rest of Riverhood. Brother and sister trade vocal duties throughout the album. "Riverbed" is a beautiful hymn of death and rebirth with a chorus washed in reverb. Sounds seem to merge and collapse, until the listener paddles into the void and disappears. Other highlights are the hypnotically spiraling “Prelude” and the psychedelic closer “Acid Rain” with each song taking the album in a new and usually unexpected direction. Perhaps the most striking moment is the duo’s take on the traditional hymn “Down to the River and Pray,” which begins with reverent beauty before taking a sideways turn into percussive celebration and ambient experimentation. All of these pieces are drawn together on Riverhood into a whole that is lush, vibrant, and extraordinarily inviting. |
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| Holobody’s Riverhood is going to fit perfectly, right between your M83 and Tennis albums. - Potholes In My Blog / Highly recommended. - Paper / Listen if you like: Her Space Holiday, Stereolab, Atlas Sound, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Suicide, Mazzy Star, The Flaming Lips, Toro Y Moi, Beach House, Radiohead, The Stone Roses. - Eastern Surf |
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| Meet Holobody, Canada’s newest pop upstart and authors of one of the most dynamic records bandcamp has seen since Sufjan Steven’s Age of Adz. The project of Montreal producer Luke Loseth (aka Felix Green) and his sister Charlotte (aka Sea Oleena), Holobody just released their debut LP, Riverhood, on Mush Records. A familial intimacy takes center stage on the album, achieving collaboration rarely seen with bands this young. The work tactfully eludes genre, adopting nearly every trick in the book for Riverhood. Sampling John Brion’s “Phone Call“ in “Prelude” (you may also recognize it sampled in Memoryhouse’s ”Lately“) or covering the spiritual “Down by the Riverside”, Holobody does it all. However, the album isn’t memorable merely because it is experimental — each track is a perfectly crafted pop gem. From Charlotte’s adolescent vocals (think a semi-serious Kitty Pryde) in “Hurricane Season” or Luke’s impressive hybrid production and ghostly whispers in album single, “Riverbed”, Riverhood is what you would expect from a group’s second or third record, cohesive and succinct. - The Wild Honey Pie |
