The Last Illusion, an EP of four bass-heavy and powerfully emotional tracks by Oakland-based artist Bored Lord, brings that “proper hardcore house” feel, built from drum and bass grumble, breakbeat with color chords expanses, pushing the levels up to red. Formal cognitive thought gets thrown own, and it’s your own personal rhythm-meter that overrides logic.
When something hits and sounds right, there is no negotiation. You should pre-order here because it will sell out.īORED LORD, THE LAST ILLUSION (T4T LUV NRG) While Telemakus calls his arrangements “off-kilter and unique” (he plays piano, Rhodes, Wurlitzer, synths, synth bass, clarinet, while handling drum production and programming too) the record swims passionately in the “heritage of jazz-sampling artists who turned their hands to instruments,” finding unplanned strokes of genius. George Duke, J Dilla, Robert Glasper-type energy flowing throughout. That’s exactly what his dynamo new album The New Heritage is filled with. According to a Bandcamp feature from 2019, both siblings would beg their parents to take them to the Monterey Jazz Festival, and in their spare time-as children mind you-they would spend countless hours checking out stacks of jazz CDs from the library.
TELEMAKUS, THE NEW HERITAGE (RADIO JUICY)īay Area pianist and producer Telemakus, whose forthcoming release The New Heritage will see him expand his very talented jazz-meets-hip-hop cache to a much larger audience, grew up in Sunnyvale with his brother. Your help makes a significant difference, and you get great music, too. The next Bandcamp Friday is October 1, and 48hills will continue to make suggestions, reminding readers and fans of music that on the first Friday of every month for the rest of 2021. If you are one of the 800,000 fans who’ve participated, shouts to you for taking action and providing support. Over that time, fans paid artists and labels over $56 million dollars, helping cover rents, mortgages, groceries, medications, and much more. Read more album reviews on James Blunt's video for "Cold"On the first Friday of every month since March 2020, local music platform Bandcamp has waived its fees to help support the many artists who have seen their livelihoods disrupted by the pandemic.If only he'd lay himself bare more often. It may be overblown, and hugely sentimental, but when Blunt sings about trying to chase his dad's monsters away, it's also genuinely moving. The most affecting track, though, is "Monsters" based on Blunt's experiences sitting by his father's hospital bed. "How It Feels to Be Alive" is a sprawling piano-led melodrama, whose verses nod to early Tom McRae. It's only when Blunt sings about his ill father that he finally delivers on his promise of real emotion. The auto-tune on "5 Miles" renders Blunt's voice barely recognisable, and "Younger", with it's EDM beats, talks about growing old gracefully but sounds more like a mid-life crisis Even with Blunt's army of co-writers, these are so anonymous, so lacking in character, they barely exist. More surprising are the handful of songs that hark back to 2017's not-so-successful experiment in electro-pop, The Afterlove. And why not? It is, after all, his biggest hit to date. "Champions" is even huger and more pompous.īoth tracks have been designed to evoke Blunt's debut, Back to Bedlam. Instead, "Cold" has a chorus that sounds like it was designed to be sung by 10,000 fans. You might imagine a song about your relationship with your wife, would aim for a close, intimate feel. It's also Blunt's tendency to treat every subject as a melancholy singalong. But the truth is that the album is really just agonisingly safe and painfully middle-of-the-road. (For the most part) Blunt has stared into his dark night of the soul and turned it into something beige and inoffensive. James Blunt loves to joke about how gloomy his songs are and he says Once Upon a Mind is his most depressing collection yet.
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