12 Decembers - Deep Down in the Lonely Places (2020) EN

The Californians took my playlists by storm with their exceptionally well done debut album and the song Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl turned out to be my personal best track of 2017. It was sure that the success would be difficult to copy but Deep Down in the Lonely Places makes a decent follow-up.

But at the same time, it's a very different album. It's opened with a acoustic guitar sounds of Repetitious Thoughts and it's very meaningful as the whole album presents quite a lot of home-made vibes - lo-fi, dyi, whatever the name. Actually even the cover art suggests that - a simple picture from a stroll instead of sublime tries. It's clearly audible also in Love Letter to Myself (For the Car II) when there are finally the wall of guitars and airy noise coming. Still, the track is completely fine and pretty good in combining the melodic and the noisy.

The album balances between the dream pop with the last works of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart's vibes (Thanks for the Ride) and some louder fragments (the finish of Valley 2 Valley). Surely, a shelf lower than before but since the before was the highest possible, it's still pretty good.

Deep Down in the Lonely Places costs 4 USD.

12 Decembers - 12 Decembers (2017) EN

Check: Love Letter to Myself (For the Car II)

Country: California, US

Genre: lo-fi dream pop

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