Natalie Prass

recogarden-script 29th April 2024 at 3:05pm

It's not like I ever got over this record. It was likely one of my first gateways into pop music, with pop structures and pop arrangements; for a record that is almost ten years old, I think about it quite often, and more so since Haley Henderickx's debut record.

There were faint memories of lush pop wonder, and the opening track quickly confirms it: delicate strings, velvety horns, aurally weaving in and out the voice and the words; this is masterful pop of the anachronic kind — preceding the revival of jolly synths of Carly Rae Jepsen, as Natalie aims for the Carpenters (I've also read Dusty Springfield!) — and it is so good.

I got to this record again thinking there were only a couple of songs worthy of note; but it stayed. Natalie Prass was released on Spacebomb, and this label had something special brewing at the time (Matthew E. White produced lots of stuff).

TitleNatalie Prass
AuthorNatalie Prass
Year2015
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