After last year’s brilliant debut album “Half Men, Half Sympathy”, Race, the Jakarta-based bedroom guitar pop act led by Addil Anara (also the bassist of Padang indiepop outfit Frys), delivers a pitch-perfect, laid-back mid-tempo jangly debris from outer Indonesian space, a song about letting go of someone else’s worldview.
Peppered with endearing The Field Mice and Smiths-esque brisky 6-string tones, “Fallacy” swifts its way through steady drum patterns and a sonorous pulsing bass line that sneakingly loops around intricate sparkling guitar riffs, roaming and chiming, sharp and gentle in equal measure, to spiral in a final soar of airy melancholy over slightly anxious, gloomy vocals, fretting before, with falling breathes, letting it all go.
Check the instrumental “Puer Aeternus” that sways up and down, with equally uplifting and wistful twinkling vibrancy, proof of Addil‘s ear for captivating, emotionally ridden melodies.
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