Albums
Full Hand
2020
Release Date: 2020
By Sophie Kemp
Reviewed February 29, 2020
The Indiana musician Kevin Krauter makes sunny, nostalgic shoegaze with some pleasing arrangements but not a lot of specificity.
Kevin Krauter makes soft, well-worn shoegaze music, kind of like that old sweater from high school you still keep around. The Indiana musician and Hoops bassist’s second album, Full Hand, is first and foremost a spring record; it makes for nice background noise as the sun stays out longer and the grass gets greener. The 12 songs are breezy and genteel, with very little brewing below the surface. Krauter doesn’t make sweeping statements in the lyrics or arrangements. Instead, what we hear is weightless and bucolic, even blissful.