In his classic book Mythologies, French thinker Roland Barthes criticizes plastic because it can be molded into anything—cheap, colorful surfaces open to infinite transformation. Contemporary pop is made of the same stuff, and Sam Gendel’s Advanced White Trash makes the case for what’s beautiful, even freeing, about it. The record sounds like something that was uploaded to SoundCloud at 3 a.m., a Roland Sound Canvas emulator buffering on a dying phone someone found in a Walmart parking lot, and still it comes out strangely appealing, almost hypnotic . . .
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