Album Review: Tiny Lights from Romain Collin
Album: Tiny Lights Artist: Romain Collin Label: XM Records Website: www.romaincollin.com Keyboardist Romain Collin produces cinematic-size soundscapes on his latest release Tiny Lights from XM Records. Track after track demonstrates his skills as a master creator and artistic manipulator of soundwaves. Fusing power rock style guitar riffs with expressive jazz piano improvisations and electro-pop laden soundscapes, Collin's synthesis of diverse types of music comes together into a cohesive collective of eloquent phrasing and humanistic expressions. The dialogue transposed between the synth-textured notes and pumping beats in "Overflow" give the track an electro-pop-rock vibe, shifting to a haunting tone in "There Will Be Blood" as the heavy timbre notes loop into one another. The psychedelic rock tremors of "Follow" form kaleidoscopic beams, putting the soundscapes in a state of flux. Moving on, "Reprise" paints dramatic streaks i...