Album Review: Lido Is “Everything” Through Emotional Electronica

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If ever there was a word to describe Lido’s debut album, Everything, it would be: impactful. Track after track, Lido impacts you with his sound. It is as if he is a musical bulldozer readying to tear down your sonic walls, and turn your mind into rubble. Yet, you do not mind the deconstruction because Lido assures that his rebuilding of your mind will be Everything. 

First, let me begin by exclaiming this album is deliciously fun. It carries the surge of sugar that would make anyone bounce off the walls for days as if they had eaten 20 bags of sour patch kids. There is a frenetic energy to Lido’s music that exemplifies the phrase “Mind-Blown”. It is a charmingly chaotic idea, but so is life, and thus Lido’s Everything. The album is exhilarating in composition because it is destined for the Millennial club scene, and the moments of life when you want to feel like your days are to be absorbed for their regality. Where even the sun, grass, wind, or any aspect of your surroundings seems impressive to you. Hence, Everything rivets listeners because it makes you want to feel everything of your life.

Lido creates music for the bright-eyed youthfulness of being a twenty-something with an ingratiated need for nightlife. Then, he matches that need with personal energy of a Millennial high on life, and readying to spread her or his body thin in dance. Thus, you have been warned, this album is to move. It might as well have been manufactured in a rave led by the ladies from Broad City. From beginning to end, you feel like you swallowed a jug of adrenaline and can run across the city without breaking a sweat. Still, I was surprised by the undercurrent of feelings that writhe through Lido’s records to give an emotional escalation to his electronica. Hence, when you dance to Lido’s songs, you feel is if you are dancing yourself clean, and getting rid of all the negative weight that was not allowing you to move both freely and beautifully.

Although Lido’s music is not for the physically lazy, as it WILL make you want to become one with its rhythms, it is also not for the spiritually lazy. Though Lido can be categorized as electronica, I would take his music a step further and call it emotional electronica. As heard in this track above, and pretty much throughout Everything, Lido has found a a way to make sound strike sentiment. As a lover of lyrics, I am always fascinated by those that manage to give sound, like a beat, its own form of speech. For Lido, a bassline can say a million things about humanity, and can leave listeners riveted by the amount of words and images they gain without a singer/ songwriter articulating what they should envision. Still, his songs, like “Crazy” or ” Citi Bike” do use samples and repetition of lyrics to observe the nuances of life. He uniquely uses a few lyrical hooks to enthrall audiences with the rightful and over-exaggerated experiences that comes with being sentient. For example, in his song “Dye” where he dramatically poses to his lover his emotional turmoil if she dyed her hair, which is a humorous and honest melodrama that can occur in relationships. Yet, in songs like Catharsis, he delves right into the constant de-stressing needed to go forward with living.  Hence, Everything, is an ultimate exposition on how sound can mold a human being by observing how sentiment can mold a sound.

There are many that believe the music you listen to can change you, and even alter your mood with just its frequencies. I can attest that Everything does exactly that. I am superbly excited by Lido’s debut because not many records have taught me how music, in itself, can be explorative of a being’s moodiness. With each beat-drop, a new feeling arises in listeners to make them want feel alive through song. Everything is literally a rollercoaster record where you will become in awe of your own mind and spirit’s willing travel through Lido’s emotionally highs and low sonics. For more information on Lido or to buy his impactful debut, Everything, Click Here.