Telekinesis is Seattle's Michael Benjamin Lerner and it's been four years since the fourth album, Ad Infinitum. Effluxion is less synth heavy and has developed into a sort of Beatles Piano Led Pop Rock that isn't a million miles away from Ben Folds.
Lerner is an ex LIPA Student, so maybe you'd expect a McCartney influence, but it's not that simple, Suburban Streetlight Drunk's jauntiness has a vocal reminiscent of current faves like Chris Church, there's nothing mind bogglingly adventurous here. it's just great Pop.
When it moves away from the Piano, it's just as good, Feel It In Your Bones is a fine slice of Psych Pop, A Place In The Sun is pure lat 70's New Wave Power Pop . Out For The Blood has a trippy Madchester / Screamadelica vibe. Effluxion is a White Album Nod.
It is the Piano Pop that shines through though. Cut The Quick is a melodic joy with it's cinematic backing and Like Nothing is at the hop. Running Like A River is a storming song, very 70's Pop Rock.and very good at it.
Effluxion is probably Telekinesis's most accessible album yet, not that what went before isn't great, it's just that Effluxion is more fully formed.
You can listen to and buy the album here. You can find out more about the artist here.
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