PeeP on PoP- Seabright

Seabright- Feel Good (self released- 2011)
~by Gabe McBride

86___________________________

One of my favorite things about laptop music is that it’s so damned democratic. A guy with a Mac, a dream, and a pirated copy of Garage Band can throw together some samples, slap a beat under ‘em, and have an album available for download before dinner. Well, maybe I exaggerate a little bit, but in the case of San Jose’s Justin Morales, AKA Seabright, democratic creativity is the name of the game, in that there is no musical stone left unturned. Feel Good really does make me, feel, well… good, with its nods to dance, classical, indiepop, hip-hop, experimental electronic, psych, traditional pop, smooth jazz,  shoegaze, dreampop, and pretty much any musical microgenre you could think of.

Feel Good is more than just democratic too, as its liberal use of styles and musical confabulations across the sound spectrum elicits a kind of ‘aw shucks’ populism, in that the album doesn’t have a mean bone in its body. Not to say there’s no edge on Feel Good’s 11 tracks, just that it is so lovingly blended into a dreamy amalgamation of groovy beats and textures that are just… happy. Amazingly, all of Seabright’s music is available for free on his Bandcamp page. It’s a no-brainer here, folks.

For Fans of: Small Black, Ducktails