Conveyor

Conveyor

Conveyor's impressive debut is equally innovative and catchy. “Woolgatherer” opens, with polyrhythmic arrangements and segmented bursts of vocal harmonies that sound congruent with its drum patterns and synthesizer waves. Above these brilliantly collaged elements is a melody that lodges itself in your frontal lobe and works its magic. Although it’s difficult to reference Conveyer's influences, there are hints of Fleet Foxes in the folky vocal harmonies (“Mukraker”) and a forward-thinking psychedelia (“Two Davids”) that shares some DNA with Olivia Tremor Control. Then other songs, like the humorous “Short Hair,” mix the sarcasm of '90s indie rock with an avant-acoustic style. “Reach” dabbles in '60s psych-folk as reverb-saturated vocals coo and gurgle alongside simple guitar strumming and trippy, ambient sounds mixed peripherally. Conveyor’s knack for knocking out multitracked harmonies comes to a head in “All,” which recalls outtakes from The Beach Boys’ SMiLE sessions; Conveyor takes the Brian Wilson approach to putting the mental back in experimental pop.

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