Alright, I’m going to get a little personal here for second, but trust me it’ll tie-in. When I was a kid I had some glow in the dark stars that were stuck to my ceiling right above my bed, and nearly every night before I went to sleep I would pretend that my bed was the spaceship and my stuffed animals and I would explore the stars (I was a child alright). But that feeling of both intimacy and imagination is exactly what Theo Bleak tries to capture on this EP, Bad Luck is Two Yellow Flowers. It is Bedroom Pop without a ceiling. On Bad Luck Is Two Yellow Flowers, Theo Bleak creates an atmosphere that feels both as intimate as swaddling blanket and as expansive as the stars, that appears on songs like “Peach Sky” and “Said like a Poet”.
The only other record that I’ve felt captured that same feeling are some of the songs off Phoebe’s Punisher (see “Garden Song”), which is a compliment of the highest regard. The EP does sometimes struggle to reach beyond some of those dreamy palettes though which makes a lot of the songs a little too similar, and when it does try to up the instrumentation on the song “Look out the Window”, I think it does so with varying success. However, this EP is a great introduction for anybody who wants to dive into the starry intimacy of Theo Bleak, just make sure you don’t float too far away from the ground.
- Bentley Bradford
