Angelo De Augustine
Swim Inside the Moon
Release Date: Sep 8, 2017
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
Record label: Asthmatic Kitty
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Album Review: Swim Inside the Moon by Angelo De Augustine
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 7.5/10
His debut album Swim Inside the Moon is released via Asthmatic Kitty Records, founded by none-other than Sufjan Stevens. As soon as you hear Augustine’s hushed, falsetto tones, the comparisons are there for the taking. Maybe this is why he has been taken under Sufjan’s wing? Does he see a little bit of himself in the young Californian? Delving further into the record; the raw, minimalistic style of his songs begins to take a hold, leaving said comparisons well and truly in the back of your mind.
Based on rating 7/10
24-year-old Californian singer-songwriter Angelo de Augustine is releasing his second full-length, Swim Inside the Moon, on Sufjan Stevens' Asthmatic Kitty Records, with a Stevens-directed music video for "Crazy, Stoned, & Gone" accompanying. De Augustine's delicate, whimsical voice and lo-fi but plucky nylon-stringed guitar evokes Devendra Banhart's early-to-mid-'00s work (the hand-drawn cover art fits too), but where some of Banhart's songs had a creepier edge to them, Swim Inside the Moon is dreamy, sweet and light. That's not ….
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