Summer 2000 is the solo+ endeavor of c h point, aka Jacob B West. It's not necessarily a project that you see talked up too often, despite it having a lot to offer. S2k certainly made his presence known when 5th wave emo was popping off in '20/'21 with the John Krasinski LP, which was then followed up in May '23 by the Ellie Kemper LP under a new pseudonym Spring 2005. Even with a new name and a new glowy, empty-headed figure of facile American pop culture on the cover, c h point's distinctiveness and passion for his work remain incredibly consistent. The record is a beautiful and intensive experience that interrogates the duality, incongruity, and irreducibility of that phenomenological force known as the human spirit through ten delicately produced petitions to a serene sense of clarity on the ambiguousness of certitude. There is a folky core to many of these tracks that is effervescently altered by infusions of tight hooky riffs and bleak bombardments of vespertine ambiance- an understatement in reverie that still manages to overclock the human-hard drive's ability to process emotions- coupling these sensations with pristinely polished retro-plated arrangements and transcendent plateaus that stage multifaceted proggy permutations. It's like Heccra went to hell and returned with a more stable sense of self and an even larger chip on his shoulder... or a chiptune as the case may be. Summer 2000 cuts through the cold, hard winter of the soul like a chemical etching solution, reforming patterns in its wake to refashion all the frustration this world has to offer in order to suit its bespoke designs.
