Suburban Living
How to Be Human
(Egghunt Records)
4.5/5
How do you measure the true impact of a good album? The answer to this question varies from listener to listener. Some people measure an album’s impact by how high it ranks on the music charts. Others measure it by how many times a radio station plays a memorable track from it. But for me, the true impact of a good album comes down to whether or not the artist manages to translate its themes to its audience in a memorable and effective way.
By putting emphasis on the album’s very human themes throughout its almost-40-minute runtime, Philadelphia shoegaze/post-punk band Suburban Living’s third full-length, How to Be Human, successfully does just that.
The album continues their legacy of passionate work—see 2015’s self-titled debut and 2016’s Almost Paradise—and is a riveting release that makes good use of its very human themes by vividly creating a great musical piece that will stick in listeners’ minds long after they switch off the car radio.