Electric President
Music sounds different by the sea than at any other place: Burt Bacharach's Pacific Coast Highway, Jim O'Rourke's Ghost Ship in a Storm, or those Teenage Symphonies to God which Brian Wilson composed in his California bedroom -- having an artificial beach underneath his feet. The tracks on Electric President throw a glance at the sea as well. They drifted from Jacksonville Beach, Florida through the Atlantic Ocean up to Berlin, from Ben Cooper to Morr Music. These ten songs interpret pop as an ocean of impressions and sensations and surf on their own special surge. Ben Cooper compiled his clear but complex pop pearls along with Alex Kane. Continuously, Cooper's soft but still precise idiom drifts into our ears as a flattering yearning. And maybe it is this voice that describes his music's agenda best: stripped, immediate and interwoven with euphonic choirs. Some people might be reminded of Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard -- but without the teenage angst.