This six track EP is the work of one man, Julien Barbagallo, who currently brings home the bacon drumming for Tame Impala, not to mention psychedelic French rock band Aquaserge and prior to these Hyperclean and Tahiti 80.
The EP itself was inspired by Journal du Voleur by Jean Genet. I wasn’t sure what to make of it initially, it seemed not quite fully formed, and yet the more I listen, the more it seems to immerse me. Like slow snow then, is the sound of this EP. The other thing is that the opening track is completely sublime, spellbinding even and tends to dwarf the other five. I have no song titles to work with so I think I will make my own up. The opener Slow Snow is also the longest, featuring as it does a distant sounding atmospheric extended tom outro. This is not as bad as it sounds! It doesn’t sound like a drummer at all. I also delight in the sucked in vocal effect as Julien begins to sing. The whole track actually reminds me of Snowstorm by Galaxie 500 with banjo instead of wah-wah. It is more the atmosphere and subject matter that lead me there than actual sound. “The sky in pieces/is falling on me”.
Seeing as the sky is falling we may as well Leave The City. Did I say Slow Snow was dwarfing the rest? Leave The City is a great ‘wind in your hair’, rebellious indie pop song that lasts two and a half minutes. One Way To Live just cruises along in its own lane with one foot on the dashboard and one hand on the wheel. Another magical outro. Love Into A Crime is even more hushed until it starts tumbling and falling about the place like some sort of petty criminal and it has a sixties feel to it. So does track five and it’s the vocals doing that for me but also the instrumental weirdness and space in the track.
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The EP finishes off with I’m Coming Home which comes across as more of a ‘song’ than the previous ‘mood’ pieces but that is splitting hairs a little. It is perfectly in keeping and in concluding. This EP was too subtle and too sensitive for a dunderhead like me but I get it now.
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