Edward Phillips' tender hazy remembrances of "Something Beautiful" (Official Video)

 

"try to make it as we go"

"Something Beautiful" by New Jersey based indie pop / bedroom pop singer-songwriter Edward Phillips comes on easy but urgent and beautiful. Plucked bass guitar notes hold sway to a melodic lead line that will become one of it's pretty anchors. In the back the double time acoustic guitar, like a heart beating is it's engine. When Phillips hushed and sadly hopeful voice stirs the pot I realize more going on like something in between a Mellotron and reversed guitars swelling in magical ways. When the song takes off with tightly comforting bass and drums, there are other sounds. Everything is so lovely, so nuanced that at first glance you hear the intricacies of the production but there are many. There is the amalgam of artists like Elliot Smith, Ariel Pink and Alex G. The images this song creates in my mind are of Polaroid images, or flickering sunlight through trees and hazy remembrances of lost times with friends and that special someone. 

The backing vox as sounds add to the dreaminess and other aural images too that feel like the rushing of wind or distant rail cars. In the end this track is something beautiful, a fact you realize from start to finish. 

-Robb Donker Curtius 

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Edward Phillips · Something Beautiful

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Edward Phillips is a New Jersey-based indie rock, bedroom pop singer-songwriter. After several self-released lo-fi albums–including the brooding House of Natural (2015), Phillips now lives on to produce his own breed of fevery power slop on Kidokoro Records.

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