High Anxiety | |
Type: | studio |
Artist: | Thom Sonny Green |
Cover: | Cover art for High Anxiety - Thom Sonny Green.jpg |
Recorded: | 2014–2016 |
High Anxiety is the debut solo album by British musician Thom Sonny Green. It was composed and recorded by Green from 2014 to 2016, while he was touring with alt-J, and was released on 19 August 2016 by Infectious and Sudden Records. The album received mixed reviews by critics.
Green started producing in 2012, using his laptop.[1] He composed and recorded the album over the course of two years while touring with alt-J,[2] in hotel rooms.[3] In the process, he used Ableton Live[1] and a short music gear, including Bass Station II and OP-1 synthesisers, a H2n recorder, and a Game Boy.[4]
High Anxiety is an electronica,[5] ambient[6] and experimental[7] album. Green cited Clams Casino, Arca, Deftones and Radiohead as influences on the record.[2] The title of the album refers to Green's "general anxiety".[8]
High Anxiety received mixed reviews by music critics, many of whom found the album overlong. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, it received an average score of 57, based on 7 reviews.