electric president

Jacksonville, FL

Billboard

Music sounds different by the sea than at any other place: Burt Bacharach's Pacific Coast Highway, Jim O'Rourke's Ghost Ship in a Storm, or those Teenage Symphonies to God which Brian Wilson, the big baby being scared of water, composed in his Californian
bedroom - having an artificial beach underneath his feet. The tracks of Electric President throw a glance at the sea as well. They drifted from Jacksonville Beach/Florida through the Atlantic Ocean up to Berlin, from Ben Cooper to Morr Music.
Ben Cooper, age 23, compiled his clear but complex pop-pearls along with Alex Kane, 21, to their first self-titled album. Continuously, Cooper's soft but still precise idiom drifts into our ears, as a flattering yearning.
And maybe it is this voice that describes his music's agenda best: Stripped, immediate and at the same time interwoven with euphonic choirs. Some people might be reminded of Death Cab for Cutie's Benjamin Gibbard - but without the teenage angst.
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