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the national parks wildflower

6/27/2020

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​The National Parks (from the album Wildflower available as a self-release) (by Bryant Liggett)
Call it a 21st Century New Wave record influenced by electro Folk. Or call it a modern Electric Folk record with pulsing, Indie Rock leanings. With their fourth full length Wildflower, The National Parks experiment with tone, tempo and instrumentation, unafraid to throw a dash of what sounds like a banjo here and a handful of blip rhythms there, eager to hear what will come out on the other side; it’s a creation pleasant that tests an expansion of Electro Pop and Indie Folk. The title track is preceded by a short dose of ambient and Psychedelic desert Rock, morphing into a quick blast of power chords; it is a chugging album opener with infectious riffs and the repetitive line of ‘if you can be my open skies, I can be your wildflower’.
“Mother Nature” is an Earth Day anthem, the simple line ‘it’s a beautiful world’, backed by Folk instrumentation of banjo and harmonica, hidden underneath a programmed beat. “Horizon” is introduced with a prog-synth rhythm before the vocals kick in; those same vocals trading space with a violin as they state ‘a broken heart is the reason to start again’ before turning into a pulsing dance cut, similar to “Blue Moonlight” with its up-beat rhythms weaving throughout the melody. “Chance” is a soft duet, the vocals of Brady Parks and Sydney MacFarlane confessing ‘you’re a gamble and I’m all in’ while “Painted Sky” is a twangy, Psychedelic sing-a-long.  Wildflower has animated tone, and an experimental nature, this is an album that has mated an electronic, dance club feel to a Folk festival. (by Bryant Liggett)
 
Listen and buy the music of The National Park from AMAZON
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