SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: QUADECA – I DIDN’T MEAN TO HAUNT YOU

Quadeca
I Didn’t Mean to Haunt You
Dead Air Records

Working within, or trying to revive, if you will, a genre many consider dead and buried can be quite a serious obstacle for an artist, renowned or not so renowned. Sticking to a concept when creating an album can just compound the problem. Oh, that is exactly what Benjamin Lasky, aka Quadeca, is trying to do on his latest album I Didn’t Mean to Haunt You.

First of all, from his project to project, Lasky keeps sticking to a concept, no budges so far there. Yet, to be able for those to work you have to have quite a firm idea what you want that concept to be and how to go about it – you have to have full-strength music and full-strength lyrics.

Here, Lasky triples the risks, along with a concept he works within what some called folktronica, a genre almost nobody mentions these days. Lastly, since we mentioned dead and buried, Lasky’s concept deals about a recently deceased ghost, a tricky proposition in itself.

Yet, somehow, it all meshes together – Lasky’s ghost concept, his lyrics and even more so, that electronically-tinged folk, singer-sonwriter fare with huge vocal harmonies and rap interludes. Keep this one close for the next Halloween seasons.

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