Copperplate
A Pleasant Journey
(Self-released)
Lauren Grace is Copperplate from Georgia. Lauren has been busy. Since May of this year, Copperplate has loaded Bandcamp with three albums with another one due on September 20th. I’ll be honest, it’s too much for me. I am old and incredibly have become even more thick-headed over time, so music takes its time seep through. When I was younger, I could hear an album once and have pretty much all of the song titles memorized, know a lot of the lyrics, and bizarrely, maybe even the exact length of songs. Forty years later, I have forgotten all of those things, and struggle to absorb new music. There is a real danger of me purchasing songs more than once. I have to be careful! In the case of Copperplate, I am just now grasping this third digital only collection A Pleasant Journey, and have yet to explore the first two options and am trying to prepare for the upcoming one (Contentment). From what I’m gathering is that Copperplate is incapable of writing a subpar song.
A Pleasant Journey is definitely in store for those who enjoy dreamy indie pop. These intimate recordings are full of meticulous cleanly plucked guitar chimes and jangles (hinting at early Ocean Blue), over a hazy base of quiet vocals and other instrumentation. If pressed to compare, Copperplate lands somewhere between Seattle’s Sea Lemon (especially on the ultra-catchy “Oh Okay,” and its jaunty bass-line) and San Francisco’s Tanikichan. Lauren has a knack for memorable choruses and I love the guitar work throughout - a sound that instills reflection, and daydreams of rain clouds on the horizon. “Preoccupy,” has a booming low end that is incredibly appealing, while “Grand Central” ruminates over our limited time lines in a warm way that reminds me of Depeche Mode’s “Here is the House.”
I’m pretty sure that Copperplate can write, record, and mix an entire album of consistent high quality songs faster than I can fully consume them. Speaking of which, Copperplate has removed the earlier releases from their Bandcamp page, so be sure to check out A Pleasant Journey as quickly as you can, and get ready for the next album in a few weeks!
(https://copperplatemusic.bandcamp.com/album/a-pleasant-journey)
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