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The cover of Motorbike James
VIISIONS features a chrome-suited astronaut peering through a window, an image that certainly resonates after a socially-distanced year.
But James (Michael Werbicki, formerly of Royal Tusk) isn t succumbing to pandemic ennui on his debut album he s sorting through the drift of existence.
VIISIONS 10 songs coast through synth-pop, psychedelia, R&B and vaporwave on the road to big existential wonderings.
Werbicki bends every element at his disposal burbling waves of synth, psych-warped guitars, lively drumming, his own chill-dude delivery, all of the aforementioned genres into a unified, singular vision. That the album feels so fully realized is a credit to his sense of specificity (he also produced the record).