I was supposed to listen to Up High in the Night by Arlo during the week of April 30th to May 6th, but I didn't. So this week I listened to it instead. I am not insanely familiar with Arlo, I've only heard things about them as one of their members, Shmedly, has ties to a lot of other California Power Pop/Rock bands, namely Ozma and Weezer. I don't have a lot to say about the album, the songs are fairly standard Power Pop influenced Indie Rock affairs. They sound almost like Jets to Brazil at times which is a little bit interesting. The thing that stands out the most to me with this album is the production. I don't know what tin can the vocalist is singing into, or really what tin can the whole band is recording into for that matter, but it does not sound great. This kind of music really benefits from much cleaner production and this is just too dirty and low fidelity for my liking. This album is nothing special and I cannot see myself listening to it again when there are just much better bands with similar or adjacent sounds. 5.5/10
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