Art Schop experiments on multidimensional record, "Starguide"
Prepare to expand your mind and your musical horizons with the fresh release of Art Schop’s full length record, Starguide. Read on with us as we share our complete thoughts on the record, as well as a background on the artist.
Martin G. Walker, who is much better known as the solo artist behind Art Schop, is currently a Brooklyn native who has just completed his incredibly complex full length record, Starguide. This musician is challenging all new listeners with what can be considered less of a standard album and more of an immersive experience that is sure to take you on a wild ride. Needless to say, we are loving this one!
“Suspended in the vacuum of space”, Starguide comes in at 13 total tracks that form a cohesive experience that is sure to be one of your more memorable ones as of lately. Combining a top notch production and exploring an array of themes within the lyricism, Art Schop has stopped at nothing to bring something new to the creative space of music. It truly isn’t often that we leave a listening with our mouths fully agape, however this was one of the more positive and fulfilling album experiences in a little while. We always want to be on the cutting edge of what’s considered experimental and breaking the mold of standard music and this is simply the definition of that.
While his vocals have been compared to Nick Cave and Tom Waits, we couldn’t help but get an overwhelming sense of David Bowie mixed in there as well. It could potentially be due to the space ties, but the delivery and production tricks were certainly reminiscent as well. As far as “favorite” songs go, well that would be an impossible task to pick from. As mentioned, this is an album experience, which means start at the beginning of the opener and let this one run fully through for the optimal listen.
To be fully honest, this is the type of record that we’re going to need more than one full listen of. Not to overuse the word “exploration”, but there really is a great deal of personal exploration we need to do in terms of listening closely for subtleties we may have missed the first time around. In this approach though, it just goes to show fully dimensional and not one note the album was. It’s piqued our interest in a way that makes us want to discover more, so for that, we thank you Art Schop.
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