Review: Therapies Son - Over the Sea

Artist: Therapies Son
Title: Over the Sea
Format: EP
Year: 2011
Label: Transperant
Genre: Psychedelic mellow pop
Rating: 79 / 100

Last sunday I received a little message from LOVVVVVe, asking me to please check out Alex Jacobs's Therapies Son, one of the more recent signings of Transparent Records (Perfume Genius and others). They released their debut EP, Over the Sea about two weeks ago, containing 6 tracks of a kind of music one probably hasn't heard very often before. Alex plays a very unique kind of psychedelic pop, not like those well-known bands from 60's, but a very mellow, mostly synth-based kind of psychedelica, everything driven by simple mid-tempo drumbeats.

As you might know I never include video's or sound samples in my reviews, this time 'though I chose to make an exeption. It's a pretty unknown project and this really is music you might want to hear first before believing everything I say. This is Touching Down, the opening track on this EP, representing the overall sound of Therapies Son very well.



In my humble opinion Alex made a very honest little EP, in which he never avoids any experimentation with synth melodies, vocal layers and unconventional songwriting. One might say Therapies Son is something music needs every now and then; somebody who likes to experiment with all those different genres music has to offer, blending it into something new. This EP doesn't represent a kind of music which has fully evolved, but it shows something very promising, something which could lead to some fantastic records in the near future. For now one will have to do it with this EP, which ins't a punishment by far, it is something fans of experimental pop music might fall in love with.

Spread the LOVVVVVe,

Selwin.