Mohanski: 5 Star Review of Hotdog Chihuahua by music-news.com
5 Star Review of Hotdog Chihuahua by music-news.com
Mohanski - Hotdog Chihuahua - Reviewer Kwok W Wan
The sun radiates from this album and generates warmth from a place far from Mohanski's London origins. The weather is not British, but it shines a light on the sporadic graffiti, empty beet bottles and gret tower blocks of urban living.
Hotdog Chihuahua is a complicated collection of lo-fi songs. The first two tracks surf along your ear canal, combing golden sands until the third track, California, tells you where the influence of easy guitars and harmonies come from. Back Home twangs delightfully along like students on a carefree campus, while Mash it Up washes like tiny waves, lapping your toes.
But listen closer and you realise they aren't simple Haight-Ashbury drones but a lot cleverer than that. Sadness souns like something the Stone Roses might have written if they came from Bristol. 5 Year Plan slows you down and shows you closeups of strangers with interesting faces. Interlude sounds like a merry-go-round tune performed by carnival folk. All The Cues does away with singing altogether until the final quarter of the song.
Hotdog Chihuahua by Mohanski hums with tension between the sunny melodies and instrospective lyrics. It's the distilled essence of east coast sunshine and inner city feeling, the perfect music for a setting sun a on warm night.
5 Stars.
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The sun radiates from this album and generates warmth from a place far from Mohanski's London origins. The weather is not British, but it shines a light on the sporadic graffiti, empty beet bottles and gret tower blocks of urban living.
Hotdog Chihuahua is a complicated collection of lo-fi songs. The first two tracks surf along your ear canal, combing golden sands until the third track, California, tells you where the influence of easy guitars and harmonies come from. Back Home twangs delightfully along like students on a carefree campus, while Mash it Up washes like tiny waves, lapping your toes.
But listen closer and you realise they aren't simple Haight-Ashbury drones but a lot cleverer than that. Sadness souns like something the Stone Roses might have written if they came from Bristol. 5 Year Plan slows you down and shows you closeups of strangers with interesting faces. Interlude sounds like a merry-go-round tune performed by carnival folk. All The Cues does away with singing altogether until the final quarter of the song.
Hotdog Chihuahua by Mohanski hums with tension between the sunny melodies and instrospective lyrics. It's the distilled essence of east coast sunshine and inner city feeling, the perfect music for a setting sun a on warm night.
5 Stars.
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