Floor Cry – Slasher Flick Review
Floor Cry’s Slasher Flick is firmly rooted in the dream pop world, offering low key synths, upbeat interludes and everything from the woozy to the cheerful throughout. The eighties influenced and synth infused nostalgia driven piece is thematically written to be one of horror. Upon digging deeper many of the songs touch on subjects such as the impermanence of relationships, regrets pertaining to love, redemption and the horror of infidelity and growth therein.
The upbeat, low key synths on 1-800-Love introduces us to the album with the optimism of initiating a new relationship before taking a quick dive into the turbulence of Slasher Flick. Slasher Flick is a dazed out love letter about heartbreak and betrayal which edges on themes of revenge. Well crafted lines such as “It would be more of a jump scare, If you actually showed up when you said you’d be there” do well to lend themselves to the theme of the song and album overall. From references to Christine to a scream peppered in for good measure, the title track sets the mood well.
Death Of touches on themes of hopelessness and depression, greeting the ear with stripped down synths and an infectious rhythm that carries the listener through the track before treating us to a charming surprise on Next Best Thing. Vansire features on the track giving the piece a nice kind of contrast. The proceeding duet and turn taking vocals that takes place is a captivating sonic experience. The collaboration on the piece is phenomenally well done from beginning to end.
Mahogany provides the listener with a short but substantial interlude with subject matter pertaining to parting ways before Fleeting hearkens back to the core of what makes tracks like Slasher Flick and the album as a whole so pleasing to hear. The track is a cinematic driven experience that touches on the impermanence of life and love while keeping with the dazed dream-pop sound that Floor Cry has perfected on this release.
I Just Wanna keeps with the theme by dealing with post break-up blues and regrets pertaining to a failed relationship. The song notably paces itself more briskly, placing well as a backdrop for If U Got a Problem which marks itself as a departure from the rest of the album. The dance-pop piece picks up the tempo with some quick synths as a short interlude that does well to both break up the album and show that experimentation is welcome.
Answers returns us to the sedating and relaxed tempos that permeate throughout Slasher Flick. The mild tempo paired with lyrical content moves us towards the end of the album, with reflections on moving on, acceptance and growth through grief. For Slasher Flick’s closer One Day serves as a hushed careful deliberation on the horror of infidelity, lending itself as a fitting closure for the debut album.
Overall, Slasher Flick is a thematically gripping and honest piece that touches on some very intimate human emotions while staying firmly rooted as the dream-pop we’ve come to expect from Felicia Sekundiak’s project. Tracks that deviate from the album in tempo, style and pace show that Sekundiak is not one to shy away from experimentation. This synth soaked debut is an impressive release and leaves us questioning what’s next for Floor Cry.
Listen to Slasher Flick by Floor Cry below via Bandcamp.
