GGD is very hard to categorize because the song-writing is so liquid. On "Eye Contact" GGD will take the words "pop form" and erase them from your memory with this album because everything about its composition is so non-standard. Choppy, sample-laden beats shape the record, along with live synths and the arcane and beautiful voice of Liz Bougatsos. Besides those three attributes, there is little else on "Eye Contact" one could call "constant".
"Romance Layers" is a sexy, down-tempo, jam with R&B vocals and is probably the most (air quotes here) normal track. The rest of the album is a protean musical mass of ever-evolving beats building upon and erasing each other. By the time a track ends it is barely recognizable as the track you started listening to.
The mood ranges from warm and familiar on songs like "Chinese High" to frantic and alien on others such as "Thru and Thru". But despite the constantly changing nature of the album, Bougatsos and her band make the material cohesive and captivating.
Grade: A-
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