Walter TV
Blessed (Sinderlyn)
A very small percentage of musicians are known for their day jobs. Walter TV is one of them, having two of their members, Pierce McGarry and Joe McMurray, spending most of their time in Mac DeMarco’s backing band touring the world and most certainly beyond.
On the surface, Walter TV share some common ground with DeMarco, favouring wobbly, chorus-pedal-reverb-loving production and a cheeky sense of humour only true millennials can understand. But on Blessed, we get a more rounded out idea of what Walter TV are really all about. “Candles” shares a similar rhythmic-psych guitar strumming pattern as Love’s seminal psych folk song “Your Mind And We Belong Together”. “Paranormal Witness” and “Tall Mountains” are thoughtful pop songs with a quivering twist. “Surf Metal” erupts with glistening mercurial surf guitar, like sweat on asphalt. “Fan (with keyboards)” is just the right amount of odd, ending with a descending chord progression, punctuated with an affected voice repeating the mantra of todays modern cool boy: “Sweet."
While there are times where they could cool down on the trendy chorus-verb affect, Blessed is mostly bliss, drenching its listener in a wave of jittery psych-surf-pop.
Rating: ★★★1/2 (out of five)
