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Previously playing in and around Philadelphia pop-punk trio The Ambulars, member Michael Cantor’s new solo album ‘Silver Blues’, released as The Goodbye Party, has a soft, sun-kissed, Brian Wilson feel to it. It’s a lilting college-rock dream that deserves to be a sleeper hit in 2015. Cantor started releasing home-recordings as The Goodbye Party. This solo project he would later fully flesh out to create his first full length album under that project, Silver Blues. A true labor of love, Cantor recorded most of the album himself, aided by drummer Joey Doubek (Pinkwash). Learning about recording and production as he went, he spent the better part of a year closed up in a makeshift studio, augmenting his album with cassette and analog 4-track recordings.
The result is an album that exists within its own universe, one that weaves in and out of itself, floats and sinks, held together by its own internal logic. Silver Blues is full of lush orchestral strings, built on top of degrading cassettes and feedback and ecstatic power-pop anthems that bleed out into vocal dirges.
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