Shelter Boy

“I want my music to be able to be everything to other people,” SHELTER BOY mused. “Failure Familiar” can be imagined something like this: The LP is a flag that turns with the shifting winds of its protagonist’s emotional well-being. With a shimmering sonic palette – from the stretched rock anthems for which Oasis are renowned to the lazy guitar pop of Mac DeMarco, via the melancholy, rhythmic songcraft of King Krule – it’s an impressive introduction to an artist who uses classic ideas to explore the pitfalls of modern life. Bringing complicated feelings to light is exactly what he wants to do.