Deep down we all just want to have fun, and when everyone is trying really hard to make respectable musical masterpieces it can become in-genuine. London garage-dreamers Splashh instead exult playful vulnerability and naive bliss through “All I Wanna Do,” shamelessly producing poetic truth. Extroverted and carefree does this charming ray of jangley pop sunlight beam through fogs of noise. Go outside, spin around, wake up the streets your spirituality monotone neighborhood.
Toto Vivian and Sasha Carlton formed Splashh in the winter of 2012, and Sasha had been a pretty established male model for a few years. Splashh, at times, can be heard as the sound of handsome lovelies attempting to throw away vanity and health in order really let themselves go. Remember, for music to liberate it must come from the liberated: “All I want to do is / drink with you / idle time away / swim away,” Carlton belts out in sweet obnoxion.
Pop music, to the formal musician or scholar, is not really music but more so a multi-media art form of noise, poetry, performance, visual aesthetic, etc. Those who best understand pop music are the proud fools who realize that it is not a matter to be taken too seriously. From the very start “All I Wanna Do” grabs the listener’s hand and guides through alleyways of noisy guitar chords and straightforward indie garage riffs of joy. Tambourines rattle with live and the chorus features a very sticking snyth-sounding lead.
Splashh interestingly enough can be seen as a British band taking influence from the U.S. surf-pop of Beach Fossils, Wavves, and the rest of the long list. Dreaming of long road trips across the west perhaps? Splashh has yet to invade their muse and play any U.S. shows, but has been touring around England and has released several singles under Luv Luv Luv and Art is Hard.