SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: OFFICE CULTURE – ENOUGH

OFFICE CULTURE
ENOUGH
RUINATION RECORDS

There are a number of artists that rarely or never took the usual formulaic route when creating their music, something that you can call experimental pop/modern music.

Listening to Enough, a sweeping 16-song cycle album by New York’s Office Culture, a number of names come to mind – Scott Walker, David Sylvian, Prefab Sprout, Mark Ellis and his Talk Talk, as well as a few others.

It is quite a wide range of a musical ground to cover, and requires some exquisite songwriting to pull it through, but also a wide span of musical ground to cover, and the group itself (singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Winston Cook-Wilson, bassist Charlie Kaplan, and guitarist Ryan El-Solh from Scree) get additional help from an additional cast of 20 or so collaborators to achieve their lofty musical goals here.

And they do so quite admirably, with their detailed, complex songwriting carrying the day, bringing us equally detailed, complex music that is so easy on the ear at the same time. Consider this one when you start compiling your end of the year lists.

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