Mark McGuire - Get Lost
Mark McGuire has a strange talent. On a first and quick listen a lot of his stuff always sounds a little too easy and obvious to me. Just like a couple of sketches you’d throw together with some friends or alone on an evening session, but after a couple of spins, the tracks seem to open up and reveal layer after layer of these gorgeous textures. With “Get Lost” McGuire shows a new side to his work: vocals. Those multi-layer, harmonized vocals really took me by surprise. This is probably the closest to Brian Wilson he has ever gotten although I’m not sure that this was ever intended. Nevertheless those thick and yet shimmering vocal lines really elevate his work on a new level. Unfortunately he only uses them on a couple of tracks. But also the other pieces still manage to just float between the lines of wandering ambient music and more detailed streams of guitar lines, synth arpeggios and delays. Those track may not explore totally new territories, but are so well executed that it is a joy to loose yourself in them. There’s nothing really to add.
