Multi-instrumentalist Nicholas Tripi is the drummer for a band called Big Fun. Accordingly, his debut solo album is immensely fun and impeccably drummed. Loud World is an aggressively happy and danceable album, with a backbone of energetic rock and roll rhythms. Combining this with rapid staccato phrases and unpredictable melodies, Tripi invokes kosmische and math rock recreated on alien technology. Joyous layers of synth, guitar, keys, and miscellaneous sounds pull the album in all directions. A studio engineer in his day job, Tripi has composed, performed, recorded, and mixed this album. The result is an accomplished, polished record with a wild sense of chaotic humour.
From hallucinogenic techno-samba to deep-space cocktail music, Tripi looks through a kaleidoscope that blends exotica releases of yesteryear with the radio waves of the future. Sci-fi B-movies are a probable reference point. From spaceship races to interstellar heist montages, this album offers a new and vibrant soundtrack. Many of the tracks are paradoxes, containing exciting counterpoints in tone, mood, and pace. Spacey textures and plink-plonking melodies sit beside frantic rhythms. The beat travels at warp factor eight whilst curious synth tones stretch out a background of twinkling stars. (Samuel Rogers)
