And sure, part of me wishes that I could say that in 2001, my preternaturally eclectic listening habits drew me to the more outré fare released that year, like Henry Threadgill’s way-out-there Zooid album Up Popped the Two Lips, or even Daft Punk’s nu-disco thesis Discovery. If I had to guess, I think my mom actually had bought the CD at a Starbucks, and then left it in her car (I fully associate it with her red PT Cruiser and the red fuzzy dice hanging from her rearview, which, like, duh). Not helping is the fact that the album’s title sounds like a Starbucks sponcon Spotify playlist.
Like Steely Dan with less glitz, or a mordant Pinback, the 10 tracks on ALOL find the band fretting over downward mobility, preoccupied with ethically sourcing their groceries, and hoping, against hope, that humanity can still find its way to a very chill, socialist utopia.įine, you’re right Acoustic Soul, India.Arie’s 2001 debut album, is relatively innocuous coffee shop soul. The world has gotten a lot darker in the intervening years, and the grooves have followed suit. Where Ecstatic Burbs dealt with reconciling the saccharine surreality of a suburban upbringing with the stark realities of life after college, A Lifetime of Leisure finds Personal Space negotiating more thematically complex terrain. Ecstatic Burbs showcased the band’s “eccentro-pop” sound and range of influences, from experimental post-punk like the Dismemberment Plan to the baroque pop of The Zombies, and earned the band praise from the Village Voice, Stereogum, and Brooklyn Vegan.Ī Lifetime of Leisure, the band’s second LP release, and its first for Good Eye, showcases the members’ development, musically and personally, since Ecstatic Burbs was released. For their official debut, Sam Rosenthal and Henry Koehler joined forces with Alex Silva and Jesse Chevan, recently of Brooklyn smoothcore band Face of Man, to release 2016’s Ecstatic Burbs on Tiny Engines. Since they released their debut EP, The Early Universe Was Entirely Opaque, in 2014, the band has been a work in progress, perennially under review. Personal Space is a conundrum: indie without a scene, prog disdaining complexity, a dad band without dads.
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