ROBERT SCOTT
The Creeping Unknown (Thirsty Ear)
Reviewed by Holly Day

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For over 20 years, Robert Scott has been a shining example of how beautiful pop songs should be put together (but rarely are), first in The Clean and later in The Bats. It's hard to tell whether he's actually a hard-driven perfectionist, or if these songs just come pouring out of his head this way-the melodies are so tight and beautiful and perfect, soaring into joyful guitar crescendos just at the right places, and moody, spooky, painfully sad at others, cleverly modern-to-futuristic, utilizing feedback and voice loops as unexpected song leads, and samples that sound like plugged-in sitars and airplanes. These songs just feel so free, falling together as naturally as waterfalls tinkling, it's hard to think of them as being actually constructed and not just occurring.

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