Kicking My Feet

Yeah, he definitely landed on his feet here. This renaissance of music with physical instruments has been interesting here in the 2020's as synthesizers and samples have become more balanced with other instruments. Ruel falls right into this "correction" in pop music and his does it pretty well. A lot of what makes this great comes down to a few songs as there are a few songs on here I would call generic, but the ones that do stick out, stick out well. Only Ever, Wild Guess, I Can Die Now, and Kicking My Feet and do a pretty fantastic job and making his vocals pop while maintaining a simple instrumental catalog. A huge part of this is also due to some crisp mixing to make sure each part of the album pops when it needs to. I'm not usually an audiophile in that regard, but for some reason, I'm appreciating the mixing here a lot.