Five Roses

Five Roses is an ode to that dreamy no-man's land of childhood, swooping from shoegazing wall of sound to beautiful sparse instrumentals and straight up pop classics. The album was composed, performed, recorded and mixed entirely by Graham Van Pelt at Friendship Cove (itself a monument to playground innocence), with even the album art having been inspired by bed linens from his childhood home. Despite it's decidedly triumphant tone, Five Roses is anything but light and naïve. Normally churning out banging synth lines in his other band Think About Life, or laying down booming hip-hop remixes, Van Pelt also makes a case for himself as a budding and eclectic producer on Five Roses  which is as much a homage to late twentieth century greats like Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney and Brian Eno, as it is to the whims of youth.