Sarah Goldstone の新作 | ロキノンには騙されないぞ

ロキノンには騙されないぞ

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Sarah Goldstone
Waving

 

 

Northern Transmissions が86点相当

 

自分的に、準推し くらいかなぁという感触を持ちつつ

聴き進めたが、じわじわくる。

スルメ的要素がある。

 

非常に良い。

 

年末に出してきているので

各年間ベストに間に合わずか。

もったいない。

 

 

With decades in the music industry and a huge touring experience with Hurray for the Riff Raff, Lucy Dacus, and Boygenius,  Waving has undoubtedly shaped the familiar yet unmistakable sound of Sarah Goldstone’s debut, but it’s only part of the story.

With all this lore in mind, it’s very tempting to conclude that her first solo effort “is highly influenced by her own friends.” For example, in “I Know My Way Around” and “Waving,” as Matt Berninger sang, it’s “easy to find” Bridgers-Dacus-Baker-esque croons and define her music as straight Bridgerscore. However, we won’t listen to those Mephistophelean and Wolandian whispers about the bargain of easy comparisons and go by another road. Besides, the opener “Athens 1975,” jumping out at us with a cascade of graceful, percussion-like synths, shows us how wrong this assumption is. With the polyphonic meticulousness of Wilco’s “Cousin” and Margo Guryan’s “Take a Picture,” Sarah weaves here a multilayered tapestry of sound.

She could have stopped her exercitia by choosing common folk sonics, but instead, on Waving,’ we can hear a wide plethora of multilayered arrangements. These range from impressionistic piano fingerpicking reminiscent of Erik Satie and the 1960s mood of Nina Simone to a plume of synths in the vein of the War on Drugs (“Honda Battery”) and a hypnagogic atmosphere, fitting somewhere between Destroyer and Beach House on “Love & Loneliness.” It’s safe to say that if Dua Lipa revived ‘70s disco in her 2020s “Future Nostalgia,” then Goldstone has infused modern folk with playful ‘60s tunes in the way Nick Drake imbued folk-bent ballads with jazz influences during the era of folk giants like George Harrison and Joni Mitchell. Sometimes, the kaleidoscopic nature of the record even reminds us of Animal Collective.

Hurray for the Riff Raff、Lucy Dacus、Boygeniusとの大規模なツアー経験

NYのSSW

1st

 

 

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