Steven Steinbrink "Utopia Teased" CD

The long-awaited new album from the genius Steinbrink, who can be called the "modern Elliott Smith"! This is undoubtedly a nostalgic singer-songwriter masterpiece for the bedroom pop generation!

The comfortable yet sad world of songs that incorporates Mac DeMarco, Yo La Tengo, and Teenage Fanclub flickers faintly behind the retro-future sound...this is the best dreamy lo-fi pop of the modern era!

The long-awaited 2018 new album from Steven Steinbrink, a singer-songwriter from Olympia, USA, who has been praised for his daydream-like song worlds in 2014's ``Arranged Waves'' and 2016's ``Anagrams''! His comfortable yet somewhat twisted and mysterious sound has been described as ``a fusion of the delicate singing spirit of Elliott Smith, the floating feeling of Yo La Tengo, the good melodies of Teenage Fanclub, and the modern psychedelia of Mac DeMarco,'' but this time, while retaining his charm, the proportion of lo-fi yet high-sense programmed sounds typical of bedroom pop has increased, creating an even more floating sound world. It is a work that could be called dreamy pop played in the gap between distorted time and space, and the expected melody sense and the fragile yet unreliable singing voice are once again deeply moving. As both an SSW and a sound maker, this man's sense is truly extraordinary.

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