{"id":3961,"date":"2016-10-11T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-personal-space-ecstatic-burbs\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T22:16:01","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T22:16:01","slug":"album-review-personal-space-ecstatic-burbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alreadyheard.com\/staging\/album-review-personal-space-ecstatic-burbs\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review:\u00a0Personal Space &#8211; Ecstatic Burbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"tmblr-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/78.media.tumblr.com\/892e284e9edeb28767e43b253e019588\/tumblr_oefmywqJrz1r8no6so6_1280.jpg\" width=\"250em\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><\/figure>\n<p>Subverting notions of &ldquo;pop&rdquo; music, Brooklyn\u2019s <b>Personal Space<\/b> may write some gorgeous songs, but they\u2019ll also challenge ideas that pop music, by virtue of it being &ldquo;popular&rdquo;, is merely artistic or cultural fluff. Instead their dense and rewarding debut, <i>\u2018Ecstatic Burbs\u2019<\/i>, is an album that feels endlessly spacious yet simultaneously brief; a challenging, cerebral pop record that twists time and shapes spectacular sounds.<\/p>\n<p>An incredible five of the eight songs on <i>\u2018Ecstatic Burbs\u2019<\/i> clock in at over five minutes in length; that not a single one comes close to feeling that run-time is testament to some astonishingly serpentine song structures and splendid pacing. For every psych-rock freakout or chamber pop spark, there are some wonderful minimal sojourns and gentle interludes, such as the one found on <i>\u2018A Weekend With\u2026 (The Horse Head)\u2019<\/i>. These moments help to add a delightfully delicate fresco to <b>Personal Space<\/b>\u2019s elastic indie-pop, making <i>\u2018Ecstatic Burbs\u2019<\/i> potentially daunting eight songs seem tantalisingly brief.<\/p>\n<p><!-- more --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/personalspaceband.bandcamp.com\/album\/ecstatic-burbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ecstatic Burbs by Personal Space<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More remarkably, <i>\u2018Ecstatic Burbs\u2019<\/i> feels unbelievably natural. For all the moments of pure instrumentation, it never feels like <b>Personal Space<\/b> are just filling time or showing off, more that the songs organically grew to fill the space. It can feel like a neglected skill, but you get the feeling that <b>Personal Space<\/b> worked in the interets of the song, rather than forcing the issue throughout <i>&lsquo;Ecstatic Burbs<\/i>. Cuts such as the wonderful <i>\u2018An Evening With\u2026 (Mr. Brontosaurus)\u2019<\/i> and <i>\u2018Ecstatic World\u2019<\/i>  possess an almost slacker-pop lackadaisicalness, which reinforices the thinking that <b>Personal Space<\/b> are working on a a different level to many of their peers, creating a meandering epic that ebbs and flows perfectly and naturally.<\/p>\n<p>Better still, <i>\u2018Ecstatic Burbs\u2019<\/i> sounds fantastic, awash with textures that fly at you from all directions. It\u2019s perhaps easiest to draw comparisons with the likes of Volcano, I\u2019m Still Excited!! or of Montreal in <b>Personal Space<\/b>\u2019s ability to conjure up elegant and engaging pop songs that don\u2019t pander to the audience or play to basest denominators. Instead <i>\u2018Ecstatic Burbs\u2019<\/i> is a fine modern indie-pop album; eccentric, eclectic and frequently electric.<\/p>\n<p>3.5\/5<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2019Ecstatic Burbs&rsquo;<\/em> by <strong>Personal Space<\/strong> is released on October 14th on <b>Tiny Engines<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Personal Space<\/strong> links: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/personalspaceband\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/personalspacers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>|<a href=\"https:\/\/personalspaceband.bandcamp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bandcamp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Words by Rob Mair (<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/BobNightMair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BobNightMair<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subverting notions of &ldquo;pop&rdquo; music, Brooklyn\u2019s Personal Space may write some gorgeous songs, but they\u2019ll also challenge ideas that pop music, by virtue of it being &ldquo;popular&rdquo;, is merely artistic or cultural fluff. Instead their dense and rewarding debut, \u2018Ecstatic Burbs\u2019, is an album that feels endlessly spacious yet simultaneously brief; a challenging, cerebral pop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":15811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2861,2827,15022,206],"class_list":["post-3961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-album-reviews","tag-ecstatic-burbs","tag-personal-space","tag-rob-mair","tag-tiny-engines"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Album Review:\u00a0Personal Space - Ecstatic Burbs - Already Heard Staging<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Subverting notions of &ldquo;pop&rdquo; music, Brooklyn\u2019s Personal Space may write some gorgeous songs, but they\u2019ll also challenge ideas that pop music,\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Album Review:\u00a0Personal Space - Ecstatic Burbs - Already Heard Staging\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Subverting notions of &ldquo;pop&rdquo; 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