Album Review: All Day Gentle Hold! by Porches

All Day Gentle Hold !, the fifth album by Porches, goes down with all the acrid sweetness of late summer's most distinctive pleasures. It evokes the unique jouissance of, say, a cheap cigarette that's a little too tarry or the first sip of a Slurpee cut with a little too much vodka--sensations that define the phrase "too much of a good thing," the kinds of sensory overload experiences that trigger intense, indelible memories. Running a scant 25 minutes and featuring some of Aaron Maine's most succinct and enjoyable songwriting, it distances him from the too-cool chilliness of 2020's Ricky Music, instead embracing the effusive, heart-on-sleeve tone that made early records like 2013's Slow Dance in the Cosmos so remarkable.

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