I’d like to get a glimpse of what’s going on in Andy Fosberry’s head.
Not like a literal glimpse – there’s a brain in there, and it’s firing
electrical synapses and whatever to keep the body going. I mean like a glimpse
into what his inspirations are, the visual images that play within his mind
that inform the music he makes. Again, not literally – I fully understand that
there’s not a projector or something in there flashing home movies on one side
of his brain pan. I’m not going to try to dig through his skull with a teaspoon
or anything.
I promise.
Andy Fosberry makes soundtracks, and thank god for that. Some of the soundtracks are real – Fosberry sees film
and makes music for it. Some of the soundtracks are in his head – Fosberry sees
visuals there and makes music for it. When
Comfort Is Stranger maybe telegraphs its opening track, “Here Is Your Eye,”
a Stranger Things homage with pulsing
synths and 1980s-inspired vibe, but it veers beyond it to all sorts of
cinematic atmospheres. There’s lens-flared ambient and piano-led melancholy,
like the appropriately titled “Lana Del Rey,” which flatters the muse with a
deft homage. (And let’s not kid ourselves – Norman
Fucking Rockwell is an absolute treat.)
So it plays out like it says it will, treating “comfort” and “strangeness”
like interchangeable elements, two sides of the same coin, a combination made familiar
by the nostalgia it promotes. Turns out Andy Fosberry and I see pretty similar
things in our mind theaters when listening to music like this, and we both have
a visceral and positive reaction upon the brilliant juxtaposition. You could
probably chisel your way into both of our heads and see pretty much the same
thing!
Metaphorically. Always metaphorically with the head excavations.
https://andyfosberry.bandcamp.com/
https://thirdkindrecords.bandcamp.com/
--Ryan
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