On Olly Oxen Free, Mason Proper creates a hazy world of modern psychedelia — the songs swirl around on circular patterns set aloft by reverbed guitars, digital effects and tweaked keyboards.
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On Olly Oxen Free, Mason Proper creates a hazy world of modern psychedelia — the songs swirl around on circular patterns set aloft by reverbed guitars, digital effects and tweaked keyboards.
If you’re a casual practitioner of nostalgia, the type who longs for the days where your biggest concerns were finding first love and growing up, you’ll spend a lot of time with these songs.
Bill Baird’s most ambitious work since the demise of his former project Sound Team, Bright Blue Dream seems at first like it's Baird’s way of putting that book back on the shelf for good – but that’s only half of the story.