Cal Fish songs seem conjured from a palette of partially-remembered video games, cartoons, and indie rock. I was never a gamer, so I can’t go deep with the references, but I know enough to know that there is a Nintendo-and-shoegaze haze wafting through every track on Indecision Songs, the artist’s seventh solo album. There are magical flutes. There are damaged guitars. There are crunchy, almost IDM-ish electronics. Can we call this future twee? It makes me nostalgic for games I never played. At times, it sounds like Animal Collective. One song even references “Ocean Avenue” by Yellowcard. You could do a lot worse than to put this record on and walk over a bridge.
Cal Fish - ‘Indecision Songs’
Staff PicksBleepy, half-remembered pop.
By JB Johnson
2024/06/04
- 1Twirling
- 2Moss u (so much)
- 3Glimmer in yr Tears (or 40 days on ocean avenue)
- 4Platformer
- 52 Way Path (feat. hi im home)
- 6When a Thought
- 7Hugging Down a Hill
- 8Big Bad Blanket of Protection
- 9Longest Night of the Year (feat. Itchy Kisses)
- 10Rise Again (i know u c this is what dreams r made of)
- 11i will never make a decision
- 122 Way Path (instrumental).wav
- 13Longest Night of the Year (instrumental).wav
- 14Hugging Down a Hill (instrumental).wav
- 15Glimmer In yr Tears (instrumental).wav
- 16Moss U (instrumental).wav
- 17Rise Again (instrumental).wav
- 18Twirling (instrumental).wav
- 19When A Thought (instrumental).wav
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