Whether the finished album lives up to Dinner's vision only Dinner knows.
Musically, the album exists in its own space between the 80's, 90's and the
present. The songs are pop songs held together by somewhat idiosyncratic
arrangements. Opener "Cool As Ice" sounds like the soundtrack to David
Lynch directing Miami Vice with overdriven synthetic strings and an equally
eerie and funky slap bass that slowly grow into a pop structure. "Turn Me
On" invokes the feeling of Sade recorded on VHS fronted by Klaus Nomi's
baryton-possessed ghost, or a warped jingle from The Home Shopping Network.
The song "Lie" has distinct Nico-esque undertones and John Cale-ish
overtones wrapped in 80's melancholy, while "Wake Up" and "The World"
explore inverted 90's Euro-pop. In the words of mix-engineer Filip Nicolic
(Poolside), "The whole album sounds like Chimo Bayo produced by Marquis
de Sade." An even more concise definition of Dinner comes from label-mate
Mac Demarco: "Great face, great body, great tunes."
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