Legitocracy is the solo effort from Patrick McCarthy. He recently released Day 122. The thing I found very unique and interesting about this album was the process. McCarthy mentions, “The album Day 122 was written, recorded, mixed and mastered by me live on Twitch for 163 streams totaling 480 hours from the dates of February 13, 2020 until release day October 2, 2020. The commenters in my Twitch chat were heavily encouraged to critique and suggest changes to my songs starting from the first day of this project.” I do love this. I’ve been producing bands for over twenty years and this type of creative process is one I haven’t heard of before and although seems like it could be a mess if you’re receiving too much feedback I have to say I really thought it was cool.
In the mid ’90s I was in high school and back then MTV was the way new music was received and I remember there being an influx of pop punk. There were a lot of bands that came on the scene that had a youthful spirit that other young people found appealing. Legitocracy sounded very close to bands like New Found Glory and Blink-182. The songs on Day 122 have such a similar emotional quality to those pop punk groups and others of their ilk. In fact the singing has that inflection that I always hear and is so easy to spot in this style of music that seems to be a staple. I think Blink-182 may be most responsible for this style of singing. I would say the main difference is that the songs on Day 122 sound like lo-fi bedroom recordings instead of studio recordings. On that note even though these songs were definitely lo-fi to my ears, I thought the artist did a good job with the recording quality. I feel like a broken record but sending your DIY mixes to a professional mastering engineer is well worth the money even if you have to save up to do so. I thought, from a songwriting perspective, the songs were consistently good. There are a ton of hooks and they really seemed to deliver what people enjoy about the genre. A lot of the songs make me feel like I just graduated high school and am attending a kegger at my best friend’s parents house. On top of that the delivery and technical ability also felt top notch. There are twelve songs total and more or less they seem to revolve around coming of age topics like the trials and tribulations of romantic love, a hopeful but uncertain future and the paths our lives take. The target audience for this album isn’t hard to figure out. If you’re a fan of any of the aforementioned bands or pop punk in general I have little doubt you will appreciate this album.
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