an Indie pop with a slightly touch of neo-psychedelia band called Foster the People has released a sophomore album entitled Supermodel. First of all i’d like to remind us all about their debut album in 2011 Torches with such a mainstream single ‘Pumped up Kicks’. Messed up lyric, scary even, but you know, one thing that is good about music is, once you love the music you just love it. There were a lot of tracks in Torches that i loved and on 18th of March i heard that Mark and friends were releasing their second album. i was like “okay, i’ll check that out”.
Track Listing :
Are You What You Wanna Be?
Ask Yourself
Coming of Age
Nevermind
Pseudologia Fantastica
The Angelic Welcome of Mr. Jones
Best Friend
A Beginner’s Guide to Destroying the Moon
Goats in Trees
The Truth
Fire Escape
I’m that kind of person who never judge an album on the first hearing. I have to listen to it 3 times at least before determining it was good or bad. Supermodel,,,,hmmm how should i put this,,this album is kinda flat, a perfect mediocre record. The first three tracks were like the premature songs from Torches, where you couldn’t put it in the first album because it wasn’t perfect yet but then you put it anyway in the second album with the same condition and sadly it turns out to be the best 3 tracks in this album. Foster the People still got the catchy charm from their first album but somehow it is missing something that makes this record somehow flat. Apparently Supermodel includes everything that the first album did, such as electronics elements, upbeat instrumental, backing vocals, unique guitar tones, but as a result Torches did a better job combining these ingredients than Supermodel. I have a lot of expectation on my first hearing of this album because i liked Torches a lot. So i have this tendency to push myself to love this album, but i did not. I didn’t hate it in particular but i don’t love it either, i was just expecting something more i guess.
One song that maybe got a special place in my heart is Nevermind. it got this interesting acoustic guitar solo in the beginning and it got my attention. I love guitar, i love every songs that has a good strong guitar influence so i guess my opinion here is kinda biased. But objectively speaking, like i said, the first three tracks are the most catchy one. But an album transforms everytime you listen to it, and your favorite songs change as the time goes by. so i said catchy instead of good for now. I hope i can review this album a little bit more, but honestly, i don’t many things to say here. Still, i appreciate Mark Foster, Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius for making this album, thanks.
in conclusion, i give this album 5 out of 10 rating.
andanimusic 