Bleachers' 'Bleachers' Review
almost single-handedly made modern pop into a glorious safe space, an expansive, sensitive, creative biosphere where the biggest artists in the world — from Taylor to Lana to Lorde — can chase their wildest ambitions and find their most real inner selves while still making blockbuster records. Most A-list superproducers are pop scientists. Antonoff is a pop humanist. is the project where he works out his band side.
The fourth, self-titled Bleachers record doesn’t veer too far from their previous LPs. Antonoff is an emo kid from New Jersey who worships Bruce Springsteen and is a firm believer in the spiritual ecstasy that can only be attained through the Platonic perfection of pop formula. Bleachers opens with Antonoff in low-talking Intimate Bruce mode over surging drums and a U2-size guitarscape, as he sets the LP’s warmly nostalgic tone singing, “Future’s past/I’m right on time.
He gets lovably personal on the synth-rocker “Jesus Is Dead,” as he looks back on his own mid-2000s golden age of DIY tours and hanging out at the New York hipster dance night Misshapes. “I miss it, all the time,” he laments, contrasting that indie Eden with the strange vibes these days of feeling like “the man who sold the world.
Every element of the Bleachers experience comes together on the album’s centerpiece, “Alma Mater.” This one has sax magic and Boss mumbling too, but mainly knocks you over by subtraction rather than addition, boiling down the Born to Run idealism you hear elsewhere to an elegiac ambiance. Even Lana Del Rey’s appearance on the track feels understated. Antonoff sings about listening to Tom Waits as he drives through Jersey looking for the heart of Saturday night.
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