On the mournful anthem “My City’s Gone,” Starlite sings about street names. Parts of Farewell feel tiny and beguilingly simple. Songs like “Etc” from Starlite’s last EP were bold steps into a new territory Farewell is the kingdom he built there. It’s also partly because visionaries like Bon Iver, Kanye West (both of whom appear on the album), Frank Ocean, James Blake, and Chance The Rapper spent the better part of the last decade carving out a vacuum where Starlite’s gifts are finally, blissfully, allowed to take up the exact space they’ve always deserved. This is partly because his discography, while certainly respectable in its own right, always hinted prophetically at something greater. “Visionaries like Bon Iver, Kanye West, Frank Ocean, James Blake, and Chance The Rapper spent the better part of the last decade carving out a vacuum where Starlite’s gifts are finally, blissfully, allowed to take up the exact space they’ve always deserved.”įarewell, Starlite! feels like the album that Francis Farewell Starlite (yes, according to Wikipedia, that’s his name) of Francis And The Lights has been making his whole life.
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