Majical Cloudz - Impersonator (2013) {Matador Records}
Majical Cloudz - Impersonator (2013) {Matador Records}
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© 2013 Matador Records | OLE-1034-2
Rock / Alternative / Electronic / Minimal / Experimental / Indie
With rich vocals atop quiet looped waves of white noise, filtered synths and sparse thuds, Montreal songwriter Devon Welsh aka Majical Cloudz, is one of 2013's most unique and essential voices. His 2012 Turns Turns Turns EP, an audacious distillation of Welsh's ideas that brought his vocals to the fore. Citing Elliott Smith and Arthur Russell as the two biggest influences on his songwriting. Though they stand stylistically apart from other artists in their Montreal scene - which includes Grimes, Doldrums, Blue Hawaii, and others - Majical Cloudz are proud beneficiaries of it camaraderie.
Majical Cloudz - Impersonator (2013) {Matador Records}
In 2012, Montreal producer Devon Welsh introduced the world to Majical Cloudz with II, a collection of a few years' worth of his glitch-pop productions featuring contributions by like-minded friends and collaborators like Grimes. It was a sputtering, often messy affair, offering a different take on the dark, layered, and sometimes overwhelming sounds being explored by other Montreal artists like Doldrums, Blue Hawaii, and Grimes. Between II and Impersonator, the Turns Turns Turns EP surfaced: four songs that were incredibly stark by comparison, focusing more on slight instrumental arrangements, implied ghostly rhythms, and Welsh's vocals brought out of the swamp of scattershot samples and effects it had lived in before. The full-length Impersonator follows the blueprint set forth on Turns Turns Turns with ten gorgeously minimal songs with equally naked lyrical content. The opening titular track is about as busy as Impersonator gets with slightly off-kilter loops of vocals and strings intersecting each other before Welsh's deep baritone comes in with lyrics about loneliness and insecurity. With a voice that latches onto Nick Cave's commanding darkness, Elliott Smith's quaking desperation, and even a bit of the wispy romanticism of Coldplay's Chris Martin, Welsh visits themes of alienation, childhood, and his shaky relationship with his own music. Tracks like "This Is Magic" and "I Do Sing for You" make huge statements using as few elements as possible, creating the same wide-open pop compositions as James Blake or Arthur Russell before him, allowing enough space for the listener to fill in and building tension by holding off from all the typical devices we're accustomed to. These songs never break out; the bass and beats we're waiting for never drop; they exist in a state of suspended animation, eternally lingering. Even tracks like "Mister" that include beats keep the understated rhythms in supportive roles of Welsh's melancholic lyrical explorations. Final track "Notebook" rides a soft looping organ, as lyrics like "If it's not too late I'd like to know how much do I have to love to grow/Will I be alone forever?/I don't want to turn to the Bible" question mortality and existence, and ultimately submit to love as a form of faith. This song sums up much of the journey Impersonator takes us on, exploring hard questions and raw feelings but accepting the entire picture as worthy and real. With such a wide-open sound, even the confusing and painful parts sound hauntingly beautiful.
tracklist:
01. Impersonator
02. This Is Magic
03. Childhood's End
04. I Do Sing For You
05. Mister
06. Turns Turns Turns
07. Silver Rings
08. Illusion
09. Bugs Don't Buzz
10. Notebook
Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011
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EAC extraction logfile from 27. November 2014, 19:57
Majical Cloudz / Impersonator
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Majical Cloudz - Impersonator (2013) {Matador Records}
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