As winter is knocking at the door the desire to get warm by the fire wood we took a Jack Daniels in hand of course, and feet firmly engulfed in the fur of a polar bear, it goes without saying. At this small stage near the bucolic cliche winter yet lack an element, the soundtrack. These last few weeks, "Lions", Jonquil's second album has been an ideal companion for hibernation. The orchestrations and light parts will create an atmosphere totally mesmerizing, nonchalance sometimes evoking perfectly mastered the debut album of lo-fi Akron / Family ("Lily"), sometimes the softness to live in the western shades of Iron & Wine ('Magdalen Bridge'), or certain passages of nostalgic beauty of the "Tower of Love by Jim Black (" Sudden Sun "). This "Sudden Sun" is just an example of the broad palette of melodic and rhythmic group, able with a simple rhythm of a metronome and some harmonies to turn a walk in a little sensual anthem happy to return with friends. Mixing unpretentious elements drawn from pop, folk, post rock and even gospel, Jonquil seduced without drowning the listener. They spare us even subtle transitions instrumental among the strongest moments on the disc. The delicacy and fluidity with which they lead the listener to one of the highlights of their album "Lions", is appalling. Some hints of xylophone turn into a rhythm of Parisian accordion, opening the way for a few brief moments chorus telling the story of a world where the lions have replaced men. Out of nowhere, this piece will immediately plunges, accompanied by sounds of thunder. We would like to follow him, see what happens to that spectrum, but the group quickly faded to other projects for us new horizons for us to discover.
But all is not successful. Titles like "Whistle Low" are not just falling into the grotesque where different singers take voice serious and we can not help feeling a slight sense of redundancy when the end of the album. A sense of unfinished business also some songs like "Sleepy Little Pudding" where good ideas and pretty strings are quickly discarded to make room for the vagaries of limited value. This is a biased group to which we must do to truly appreciate the album's finest moments are short-lived. "I guess I should" be afraid, Is That thing's a big decision "they said, summing up perfectly to their music, ambitious but reckless. A lot of ideas, and crafts that blends into the hands of another group could soon reach new heights of self-sufficiency but on the album fit together nicely Jonquil, complement, delight and disappear well before be seized.
Jonquil - Sudden Sun
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Jonquil - Lions
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