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MH-295 Ennui - Telepathic Beat  Telepathic Beat is Ennui's debut for Mush and the album that should expose a wide audience to Jim Doutrich's brand of infectious synth-pop. The playfully yearning vocals, syncopated synth patterns, and distorted Euro-dance grooves bring to mind both the 80s New Wave pop explosion and the youthful nostalgia of recent releases by glo-fi re-originators. Though there is no shortage of hooks, "Circles", "Summer Of Love", and "Telepathic Beat" stand out in style and substance as roller-beats immersed in a bath of shimmering neo-shoegaze create a widescreen backdrop to act as home for brain-embedding melodies and subtly haunting lyrics. With its sun-drenched feel, the album plays as a soundtrack to a summer balancing a narcotic life in clubs with the possibilities that await when you skip work and head to the beach. Telepathic Beat is destined to be the album to reach for when you don't want to admit to yourself that summer is over. |
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| You can practically feel the sea breeze from here - BBC / Download it immediately, and scoop up your crush to head for the nearest body of water - Noisey Vice / With a summer soundtrack like this, we don’t want it to end either. - The Line Of Best Fit / Telepathic Beat is absolutely fantastic - Pittsburgh Music Mag |
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| Heavily influenced by the sound of mid-1980s synth pop, a touch of Gary Numan and art rockers along the lines of a more commercially-minded Peter Gabriel, Ennui’s Telepathic Beat, headed by Pittsburgh-based musician and producer Jim Doutrich, exists in that marketing sweet spot between art and artifice, capable of tapping into all the necessary moods and emotions while failing to instill any sort of lasting impression beyond the initial experiential immersion in what the album as a whole has to offer. Lush, synth-based soundscapes slowly simmer beneath Doutrich’s airy tenor, electronic drums burbling and sputtering away as his vocals hover detachedly above, aloof and the aural embodiment of the group’s name. Often on the verge of sounding somewhat somnambulant, Telepathic Beat exists somewhere between waking and not, half-remembered fragments of familiar pop songs dissolved Dali-esque by sleep to create something at once familiar yet not quite right. The recognizable sounds and textures are all there, they’ve simply been reassembled in new and slightly altered ways. It’s all pleasant enough, but ultimately that’s all it is. - Popmatters |
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