The Golden Filter- Voluspa

This is the New York band’s debut album and after the release of their first single ‘Solid Gold’ well over a year ago, it’s been a long time coming. Named after the poem on the subject of the creation story, this album is scattered with epic electric violin riffs, mouth watering synth riffs and catchy dance beats.

Despite the influx of computer generated music, I’m yet to get bored of this trend, mainly as it fascinates me as I could never have the patience for such technology. This band defies all barriers with this album, its dream-like ambiance captures the imagination, the beats urge dancing, this album’s a production master piece.

Penelope’s warm vocals melt the ear drums and Stephen’s disco handiwork compliments them well, not only is this album pop gold dust but it’s a beautiful piece of art at the same time. The strange computer generated noises add to the enchantment that the unique, overlapped vocal riffs provide. This album is hazy pop at its best.

Voluspa explores the natural elements, the supernatural and relationships, both musically and lyrically. You have to listen to the whole LP to understand what The Golden Filter are all about, given their status for remaining mysterious, this album is the biggest insight into their minds that we have, thank goodness it’s a good one. This album is a box full of magic just bursting to be opened. For me, this is definitely one of the best album’s that’s been released so far this year.