Two years ago, Jonathan Relph appeared on this blog with his project, Indoor Voices', second album, Animal. This year, the Canadian artist is back with a new dose of dreamy and noisy pop music on his album called Falling.
Relph's music is filled with oneiric distractions and dreamy reverbs, the guitars are set to make the noise captivating and trance-inducing. And they are often left alone to do their job, as it is in The Way It Is. But the more pop-like fragments easily charm their way to our hearts with their catchy melodies and the overall swiftness of the music, my favourite song here, I Hide, is a good example of one that stays in your mind long after listening to the album. Even if it dies in a sudden avalanche of harsh noise. Within his music, vocals play an interesting role: they appear from time to time, but the lyrics are sparse, many phrases are repeated over and over again, making short but poignant statements.
This dance between the noisy and avant-garde-sounding intermezzos and noise pop's beauty lasts throughout the album. Which is not long, but perhaps it makes the whole thing sounding more like one whole.
Falling costs 10 USD.
Check: I Hide
Country: Canada
Genre: noise pop
