Shop: Jack Stauber's Pop Opera

SCORE: 70/100

I think it's a safe bet that only Jack Stauber could pull off music like this. It manages to be so nonsensical while still having form, and the overall sound of the production is full of so much genuine whimsy and playfulness it's hard to turn your nose up at this short soundtrack. The songs are short, making their fun nature more apparent, and it means that nothing overstays its welcome.


Vocally, this project isn't that ideal in terms of sound, but the production is creative and fun enough to make this a worthwhile 6-minute project. It's short enough for the vocals to not become too overbearing, but it's solid enough to still be something fun and interesting to listen to; with the uniqueness being the key factor in how the soundtrack comes together.


Stauber has pretty much mastered the "weirdcore" sound palate, and although this project is too short to feel fleshed out enough to be a proper listen, the short songs do his style enough justice to make this even more worthwhile than the one full-length LP of his that I have heard so far.


It's a highly ambitious feat to make an entire project of songs named after and written about foods, but Stauber pulled it off as well as he could - and it works better than one might expect. 'Shop' and 'Coffee' are obvious highlights, with the rest of the tracks feeling like added padding along the highlight tracks, but everything is short enough to make the project pass by in an instant (quite literally with how short the runtime of this one is).




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