Puma Blue
Holy Waters
80--90点相当がでている。
jazzの風味があり、やや暗く、
雰囲気先行型かなぁと思いつつ聴き進めたのだが、
なかなか良かった。
この暗さは、Massive Attack等のブリストルサウンド、
特に、Tricky などのトリップ・ホップを思い起こさせる。
https://www.clashmusic.com/reviews/puma-blue-holy-waters/
For the first few years of his career, Puma Blue – the artist name of Jacob Allen – was perhaps most recognised for his synthetic bedroom experiments, where tales of modern melancholy met smoky rhapsodies of devotion. On debut album ‘In Praise Of Shadows’, released in 2021, Allen reached for atmospheric dimensions whilst retaining the loungey minimalism of his early EPs. On new album ‘Holy Waters’, Allen brings intensity and dynamism to mournful laments by exploring his technical reach as a bandleader. Recorded over two visits to Eastbourne’s Echo Zoo Studios, ‘Holy Waters’ see Allen work through the vestiges of grief, inertia and the prison of one’s own mind, and the result is a suite of songs headier, richer and more sharply delineated than what’s come before.
‘Hounds’ is the most striking example of Allen’s fraternal synergy with his live band; Luke Bower on guitar, Cameron Dawson on bass, Harvey Grant on sax and keys, Cameron Dawson on bass and Ellis Dupuy on drums. A trip-hop, space-rock combo, ‘Hounds’ offsets Allen’s narrative framing of despondency and isolation from the outside world through interdependent co-productions. Lyrically, ‘Holy Waters’ is a sprawling affair excavating intergenerational relationships. Allen can be elliptical and imagistic, like on ‘Epitaph’, a hallowed entreaty to his late grandmother brought to life through patched-together anecdotes and recollections of lived moments. ‘Gates (Wait For Me)’ follows, conceived as a riposte to ‘Epitaph’ from the perspective of his deceased grandfather – a marathon composition built around a funereal Hammond organ. Lyrically direct and taut, Allen underpins the emotional pull of the song through a dexterous hand-off between rolling drums and stunning piano progressions.
アトランタ経由でサウス・ロンドン出身の
Jacob Allenのソロ プロジェクト
2nd
In Praise of Shadows
202309推し