Getting sonically acquainted with Portland, Oregon’s quickly, quickly (the project of Graham Jonson), one (quickly!) begins to understand why he’s called “a musician’s musician.”
Everything he turns out is just-so, and is satisfyingly both lo-fi and well-produced. He also does delightfully pleasant things like bringing vocals to the front and adding interesting layers to tickle the ears as well as tempo changes to keep things light and breezy.
If you love musical melanges that incorporate complex-yet-precise layers of genre spectrum components — such as jazz, psych pop and soul — quickly quickly’s newest record, I Heard That Noise, promises to be one of those albums that’s built like a baklava.
Born of inspiration from a collection of the “unpredictable vocal melodies and sound design of Phil Elverum (of musical projects The Microphones and Mount Eerie), the raw emotion of Dijon, and the timeless cadence of Nick Drake,” Jonson takes this specific inspiration, chews it up and spits it out in the most dainty way.
That’s evidenced by enticing lead single “Enything.” Jonson must be proud to be able to admit that the song was so layered, he needed to get a new computer just to handle its magnitude. I Heard That Noise arrives to Ghostly International Records on April 18, and hopefully the money made from it will go to cover that new computer.
This week’s best new music
- Foreign Air, "Royalty"
- Circuit des Yeux, "Megaloner"
- Haute & Freddy, "Fashion Over Function"
- Combo Chimbita, "Dimelo"
- Shilpa Ray, "Portrait of a Cat Lady"
- Lonnie Holley, "Protest With Love"
- Yves Jarvis, "All Cylinders"
- Hannah Cohen, "Earthstar"
- Wet, "Coffee In The Morning"
- The Golden Dregs, "The Company of Strangers"
- quickly, quickly, "Enything"
- Jaco Jaco, "Woman"
