Tornado Wallace
Lonely Planet
Release Date: Jan 13, 2017
Genre(s): Pop/Rock
Record label: Running Back
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Album Review: Lonely Planet by Tornado Wallace
Very Good, Based on 4 Critics
Based on rating 7.2/10
Like a lot of electronic music around the turn of the current decade, Tornado Wallace’s early releases sought a middle path between house and disco. Dissatisfied with dance music’s status quo, they toyed with slower tempos and hypnotic repetitions. Taking inspiration from acts like Metro Area, the Australian producer reverse-engineered his way through his influences, using a variety of ’80s and ’90s signifiers—laser zaps, glassy handclaps, Italo basslines—as stepping stones to time-travel across decades.
Based on rating 3.5/5
Since 2010, Lewie Day, AKA Tornado Wallace, has made himself one of Australia's finest dance music exports. With ten singles to his name, on labels like Instruments Of Rapture and ESP Institute, his deft touch is always clear, whether he's doing luminous house, mixing in some acid or crafting a bewitching tribal drum pattern. Lonely Planet, his first full-length, arrives seven years since his debut, and it was mostly worth the wait.As its title implies, the LP is a journey of sorts, and the change of pace suits Day's craftsmanship.
Based on rating 7/10
Having come up in the burgeoning Melbourne club/production scene, Lewie Day, aka Tornado Wallace, has been responsible for well-received releases on ESP Institute, Beats In Space and other well-respected underground labels. Lonely Planet, the eagerly anticipated debut LP from the Berlin-based Australian, is another solid offering. Named after the popular backpacker's guide (which has its largest office in Melbourne), Lonely Planet finds Day favouring his more lush and organic tendencies, leading to a satisfying, exclusively mid-tempo outing that references new age and '80s soundtrack music, all with a distinctly coastal tone.
Opinion: Fantastic
Childish Gambino 'Awaken, My Love!' (Glassnote Records)Donald Glover’s got serious game, right? Comedian, Hollywood actor (The Martian, soon-to-be Spider Man: Homecoming and Star Wars), producer and lead of TV series Atlanta and, as revealed on album number three, slick, swagger-dripping soul, blues and funk crooner. There were splashes of singing on last album ‘Because The Internet’, but nothing like this. ‘Awaken, My Love!’ sees him shrieking lyrics and oozing class throughout, the record licked with a vintage touch.
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