Carl Dolphin and the gauzy exit music of "Thumbs Up"

 

"I don't know / what I need / but I need it now..."

The sonic gauziness of "Thumbs Up" by Ancram, New York's divergent artist Carl Dolphin puts you inside a dream or maybe in a movie that feels like a dream. Illusory washes, shoegaze tendencies in songs are nothing new but in "Thumbs Up" the eclipsing melancholia has an artistic finality to it. At least to me, it feels like exit music not an opening theme. 

When I listen to music I do tend to think of them in a filmic way. The beautiful haze of "Thumbs Up" had me thinking of the diffuse emotional  lighting of Richard Kelly's 'Donnie Darko', maybe even the nihilism of Bela Tarr's 'Werckmeister Harmonies', although Carl Dolphin's music is far from being so opaquely bleak. While you might feel like you are lost in a coastal fog, at other times you will feel yourself raise up like a paper kite.  

In the end, Carl Dolphin might have you looking at the void and smile at the silliness of life, lest you cry. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

Carl Dolphin · ThumbsUp

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://open.spotify.com/artist/07gi9lMAZJGr1C6d37vfO7

https://www.instagram.com/carl.dolphin/

https://carldolphin.bandcamp.com/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qdvll_6GIA



Carl Dolphin
Ancram, New York

Carl Dolphin, indie pop, bedroom pop, dream pop, art pop, indie rock, psychic pop, psyche rock, exit music of "Thumbs Up", somber pop, evocative atmospheres,