Galaxy Of The Lost

The second Lightspeed Champion long player, is an unassumingly epic collection of 12 pop songs, two instrumental intermissions, and one piano étude, bound together by a sense of longing so piquant that the listener, after listening, can’t easily stifle the sense that he himself is on the verge of some major transition, for better or worse (though for all its self-consciousness, there’s something fundamentally optimistic – even eager – about Lightspeed Champion’s anxiety over change). The record is bristling with pleas & temporary resignations & oaths of loyalty & promises to improve, all of which are built so consistently into the lyrics & melodies & rhythms that one is utterly convinced of their sincerity, utterly convinced that one has been given an unfiltered look at the mental, even logistical state of the composer during the album’s construction. (‘Filtered through art’, you might suggest, but I’d say ‘clarified’.)