Portland's two-manned Think Airbag have a spacey-pop sound that is cute and desirable beyond comprehension. Not gayish hip cute like the Snuggle-Ups, but homegrown and wholesome cute like teddy bears in astronaut outfits. They offer no overtly fresh [+]Portland's two-manned Think Airbag have a spacey-pop sound that is cute and desirable beyond comprehension. Not gayish hip cute like the Snuggle-Ups, but homegrown and wholesome cute like teddy bears in astronaut outfits. They offer no overtly fresh or abstract sounds, but master electro-pop with a sharp sense for melody, order, and layering--ultra organic indie instrumentation over beeps and twinkly synth sounds. Most synth-pop should be approached with apprehension to protect one's constitution from painfully mawkish lyrics, but Sean Bartley's Morning Jacket styled vocals offer space-themed imagery that is delicately chosen, sparse, and comforting. Sometimes it's refreshing to write the rest of a song in your head before hearing it, and then it echoes back just as you imagined it. If you have not heard their old stuff, than you will be double wammied tonight with their new release, Oldest Known Planet Identified. Jenna Roadman, PORTLAND MERCURY
In a world of spacious beauty, where pillow-y, gentle landscape brushes the sky, offset by the golden, illuminating backdrop of the sun, is Think Airbag. Forgoing the industrial, cold mechanics of big city life,
preferring to dwell in the majestic countryside, at least musically, Think Airbag uses the big, wide-open fields to float, creating a sound of space and time, a harmonious nod to all things untouched by the hands of modern
consumerism. Using the less-is-more aesthetic, Think Airbag combs through well-polished, tightly knit production values undeniably laying beneath home-spun, indie-fied recordings, giving the record the perfect spit
shine, without losing any of its prestige and cache to gloss or buffing.
What we have here is a smooth, gentle, and quite relaxing take on a slumbering sound that is as rich as it is airy, as vibrant as it is subdued, and as intoxicating as it is memorable. Think Airbag are newcomers on the scene, but their sound is that of veteran musicians, creating a soulful, early morning, dew-on-the-skin freshness that is
lacking in much of music today.
-Alex Steininger
www.inmusicwetrust.com
We get a piles of CDs mailed to us here at the Exploiter offices and many are in fact crap. But every once in a while you get a hook up because of the zine and someone lays
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