Autolux Transit Transit (ATP)
4/5
By: Jen Long
There are a few good uses for the new Autolux record: Stressful day at work? Just slip this into the CD player, lie back and let it all wash over you. Just suffered a depressing break up? Plug your headphones into this album, switch off and wallow in dark comfort. Trying to woo a sexy young thing into your bedroom? Lower the lights and try a little bit of this*.
Transit Transit marks the long awaited return of LA’s Autolux. It’s been six years since the release of their debut album Future Perfect and thankfully not too much has changed. If anything it would seem the band have mellowed with age. The sounds are less confrontational and it’s a slicker approach, but I do miss their previous force. At times it’s more Easyworld than Secret Machines, but it’s an album I’m quite happy falling into.
In fact, Autolux have provided a showcase for one of my favourite qualities an album can hold; the ability to morph itself to whatever mood I might be feeling at any given time. The same lyrics are inspiring on one play and utterly bleak on another, the guitars both haunting and uplifting. There’s so much atmosphere on every track it makes the search for meaning a little too, erm, meaningful. This is a record I want to dwell on.
Lyrics like “It’s alright, you’re OK, it’s in your future. Broken” from album opener ‘Supertoys’ - I don’t even know how to take that, but I like pulling out multiple personal meanings from the words. I think ‘Census’ has become my go to track though, all glistening verse and driving refrains, dimly referencing death and hopelessness, in my head anyway.
Maybe you should just buy this record for the excitement of seeing where it takes you. We can compare notes for future use. Just let me know.
*This one only happened in my dreams.
Artists in this article: Autolux
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