Evermotion by Guster
Posted in 2015, January, Q1 on January 24th, 2015 by Devin R Dougherty
Album: Evermotion
Artist: Guster
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Label: Ocho Mule/Nettwerk Records
Genre: Alternative Rock/Indie Rock
Evermotion is Guster’s seventh studio album, and their first in a little over four years.
Guster’s Evermotion is an extremely cohesive album, each song seems to flow into the next (if one were to listen to them altogether). However, this doesn’t do the songs any justice. Guster is seven albums in, they know what they’re doing, but it feels like they’re pouring creative ideas into a mold that washes away the personality from any of their songs on the album. There is not a single bad track on this album, but only a handful of standout ones, and you really have to listen for them, or else you’ll get sucked into the album, only returning when the album is over and you say, “that was nice.”
The really sad thing, as I said before, is that every song is better than okay, some are even great songs, but the album feels like watery. You stick your head under for a while and then resurface.
Great tracks: “Doin’ It by Myself,” “Simple Machine,” “Kid Dreams,” “It Is Just What It Is”
Not-so-great tracks: None
FINAL RATING: 6.5/10
