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Owl City finally releases 10 tracked Mobile Orchestra!
As usual, it's mostly religious with sugar coated lyrics and varying lyrics.
Tracklist:
1. Verge (ft. Aloe Blacc)
2. I Found Love
3. Thunderstruck (ft. Sarah Russell)
4. My Everything
5. Unbelievable (ft. Hanson)
6. Bird with a Broken Wing
7. Back Home (ft. Jake Owen)
8. Can't Live Without You
9. You're Not Alone (ft. Britt Nicole)
10. This Isn't The End

Mobile Orchestra album cover

This album consist of rock (Bird with a Broken Wing), electronic, and country music (Back Home). However, I noticed some of the tracks sounded similar to his previous works (I'm not gonna mention Verge, 'cause I've talked about it before), but that won't make me focus on the other original sounding beats.
Now, majorly religious song - You're Not Alone, Can't Live Without You, Bird with a Broken Wing, My Everything - with some new topics like Unbelievable's "90s kids nostalgia", Verge and This Isn't The End's "a new life awaits", I Found Love's heavier theme (based on Adam's commentary). Lyrically fun and sugary, not to mention the sick beats which still resembles a bit from "The Midsummer Station", but also a bit of newly made ones. All in all, this album is filled with amazing beats you can dance to, lyrics you can pray to God with, and let's not forget to sing along with this Orchestra. You can listen the album for free in Spotify, if you don't have one, try it out using my Spotify playlist up there. Happy listening!
Ah, forgot to mention, if you're curious what Adam thought of his works, there's a commentary tracklist in where Adam speaks about his production.

Everyone has that moment in where the 'verge' of their lives come to start a new one, and that's what Adam is going for in his latest single, and of course, Aloe Blacc's vocal was an amazing addition to this single. And not to let this moment pass any longer, let's start with Adam's "Verge"'s MV.
The opening song seems so 'path opening' and I get why he uses 'graduation' as a theme of his single.. I mean, cmon guys, we've already had way too much love songs. It's time to put some friendship and different theme in. It wasn't surprising that the MV would be a graduation-themed MV.
LBH, the single's cover looked like flying graduation hat thingy. He even posted a small clip in Insta about how he captured the moment for his single's cover. However, that doesn't mean I will judge him due to his 'direct' clues. I'll be honest if I say that I love artists giving clues for me to guess what the possible MV would be like. And even though this was directly indirect, I still love it.. cos first of all, it's Adam Young. Second, the song is hella amazing. Ok, skip the "how he guves out clues" part. My friend, Elvin, just told me that he loved Fifth Harmony's "Reflection" album, where as I find it an okay album, and I'll be real... I think he's right, I'm being a douchbag by expecting so much stuffs. It's like my standards on music just rose suddenly. But nonetheless, let's get back to the song. First, the song sounds like the combination of his "Shooting Star"'s opening, "Tokyo"'s bridge, and "The Midsummer Station" album style. I'm not saying that he took less effort, but it sounded "Wow" at first, but Hello... Imma Hootowl! So I know every song of yours, and you need to know that most Hootowls knew the music style behind the song. Not being a judgemental dude, but it's a good way to mix it up. (P.S. Love you Adam!!)
Second, one of the best thing about the song is that I didn't see the ending coming at all, and I go all "OMG! Nooooo... continueeeee!!" and now I'm playing it on repeat.
Third, I know most people will say it has the same "Good Time" feels, but no! It has similar styles but Adam put much effort into this one, I can really tell. He uses not only the obvious graduation to explain the song but also metaphorizes the butterfly in the MV as a symbol of "A new adventure awaits"
Lastly, I can tell this MV is an ad for the new HP laptop/tablet thing. Now you make me wanna buy it Adam.
So... what do you think about the MV?