Mk.gee Two Star & the Dream Police LP (Green Vinyl)

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Two Star & the Dream Police is the debut studio album by songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist Mk.gee. Two Star & the Dream Police blends '80s pop, rock, and R&B, the record brimming with expansive, genre-defying, and loosely structured songs that evoke dreaminess and emotion. The record is nearly entirely self-produced along with Mk.gee's frequent collaborator Dijon. The record received widespread love from fans along with critical acclaim from major outlets such a Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Stereogum, Billboard, NPR, Complex, and many many more.

genre-surfing bedroom pop that's lo-fi yet bright, intimate yet expansive

a transcendent debut

Just over 30 minutes of musical revelation – deceptively complex, sublimely discordant, skin-tinglingly melodic, like a peek of sun through afternoon rain.

Music is supposed to make you feel something, and there's nobody doing that better than Mk.gee on his long-awaited debut.

Nothing in contemporary music sounds quite like it, yet it seems to have always been with us, hovering just outside the realm of possibility.

Mk.gee confidently melds the soft sounds and yearning styles of '80s rock, from U2 to The Blue Nile, with his distinctive guitar finger-picking to create a feverish, instantly replayable blur of an album.

Amidst a generation of oversharing artists, begging for streams and spilling their secrets on TikTok, mk.gee seems like a time traveler: He rarely uses social media, hasn't run many ads, and has only done one interview. Yet Two Star is still one of the most beloved indie rock albums of the year — proving that if the music is this good, it can still break through the noise. What a relief that is.