If you were hooked up to a kidney dialysis machine for six weeks, creating a delicious pop record probably isn’t the first thing on your mind. It is, however, if you are Jim Finn, aka Vydamo, the frontman of Sydney dance trio Art Vs Science.
Becoming Human is a fearless, nonchalant record about self-contentment and optimism, based around love, friends and family.
The album also brushes with Finn’s emotional side in an entertaining showing which will have the listener singing along or smiling in admiration at every turn.
The songs themselves are painfully predictable, but the album as a whole is anything but. Becoming Human soars from the strums of acoustic highlight “Hurricane”, to the hum of the existential, introspective title track and the head-banging garage glory of “Let It Go”.
The album gets off to an ecstatic start before hitting an emotional roadblock in the middle, with post-breakup reflection “Little Monsters” giving a brief poignant moment before the album hits its most sentimental central on “I See You”.
The extensive Finn family is a key theme on this record, with all five of the singer’s siblings contributing triumphant chants late in the record.
Vydamo’s debut album is more than a simple feel-good record; it’s an album about being content not only about yourself, but about the things around you. To sum it up in Finn’s own words, ‘I like the little things!’ Because, it really is the little things that let you truly Become Human.
