GAJOOB Review by Bryan Baker:
There’s something especially satisfying about an album that sounds like it was recorded on borrowed time and basement floor inspiration. the flying people’s my cat is more lovely than you is a warm, warbly wonder—half new, half previously seen in their video work, all patched together with a kind of sublime, irreverent glue.
Right from the title, you know you’re in for something askew. This isn’t lo-fi in the self-conscious, retro-sheen way—it’s psychedelic warp pop that skews toward the homemade and heartfelt. There’s a Robyn Hitchcock vibe here: the knack for fractured perspectives, off-axis melodies, lyrics that feel like overheard dreams. But the flying people carve their own crooked lane.
Drums arrive like they’ve been cobbled together from spare toy parts, guitars twang and twist unpredictably, and the cheap synth lines? They’re not buried—they’re sprinkled like garnish, gloriously artificial and oddly perfect. It’s full of what you might call “charm” if charm wasn’t such a tame word. This is weird magic, crackling at the edges.
Members Loften Oblique, Halsey B Gone, and Michael Dooling sound like they’re not chasing polish, but instead leaning into the rough edge where songs breathe weird little lives of their own. This is the kind of cassette that feels like a secret—until you play it loud and proudly for your friends.
Highly recommended if you like your pop bent, your psychedelia playful, and your cats objectively more lovely than anyone else.
Media: Cassette.
Bandcamp URL: https://flyingpeople.bandcamp.com/album/my-cat-is-more-lovely-than-you
