Album Review: Vagabon Shows Millennials Infinite Worlds
I am starting to see a trend within young Millennial artists and their lyrical focuses. Their incorporation of generational issues all seem to gravitate towards a similar, spiritual feeling of less. There is no denying that this rising generation has a big heart and mind, as every ensuing youth usually does. Our parents raise us to be better, and, unfortunately, the world that we live in does not always socially catch up. Enter Vagabon’s Infinite Worlds to be a bridge between the distance we can feel both systemically and emotionally from reality.
Infinite Worlds is a wide-ranging eight-song collection that’s pleasantly unclassifiable: hypnotic electronic collages, acoustic ballads, and bursts of bright punk sit side- by-side cohesively, all tied together by Lætitia Tamko’s ( Vagabon) soaring voice. Lyrically, Vagabon’s songs feel like children’s stories in which imagination is used to tell a moral. Songs like ” The Embers” and “100 Years” are painted to be fictitious scenarios that paint very real ones based in human beings’ longing for something more, whether it be from their self or relationships. That yearning and rightful desire for “more” is integral to this generation’s definition and understanding. This perception causes Infinite Worlds to be 8 tracks the analyze what is “infinity” to a singular, small spirit. When you can have so much, but don’t “feel” much, you end up like songs “Fear * Force”, “Cold Apartment “, and “Cleaning House”, where you find yourself lost in what or who should remain and leave from your life. Vagabon subtly exudes this depth by creating melodies that for however big or small, always seem to be straightly patterned. She treats music like a quilt, of which its sonic size does not matter as much as its purpose: to make you feel warm.
It is phenomenal to hear a rising artist that is cognizant that music, beyond any other goal, should be about making people feel. No matter how melancholic her music is like, in “Alive And A Well” or exuberantly aggressive such as in “Minneapolis”, Vagabon makes sure her voice is the ground from which her listeners’ lift off. Each vocal plays are made to bring out emotion and stability to the vastness of her chord arrangements. It is as if she wants to be the sentimental pillow for you t rest your head upon after banging it in her guitar riffs and lyrical punches. The result is an album that not only shows her promise as a musician but also the promise of her listeners in finding music that will help them grow. For More Information On Vagabon Click Here.
