My Own Biggest Fan

Already a day late with this year’s first MONM album.

Pretty but not particularly notable. This is how I’d describe the entire “Dream Pop” genre. Not quite as interesting as Shoegaze, not quite as catchy as Pop. So it’s unsurprising that Citrus never got me interested, as pleasant of an album as it is. “Pink Cloud Tracing Paper” got me to listen, but only because it sounds exactly like My Bloody Valentine. The rest of the songs sound like The Sundays (remember them?) if they were Japanese and were more into MBV.

I don’t put music on as background noise, but if I were the type, this is what I’d put on. Like when your friends come over, and you don’t want the music to over power the dinner conversation. Yeah, if only more restaurants played this, rather than that horrible chill-out background music.