Nearly Oratorio
I made mention of a Melbourne three piece called I’lls a few months back. Today it’s my most unaffected pleasure to share with you the solo work of Simon Lam, vocalist and drummer for the very same I’lls. The track below is called ’1st Day Of No Uni’ and it pretty much polarises my own state of mind when I used to find myself at the helm of holiday extravaganza. “Find a place and settle down”. Not me Simon, first day of no uni and I’m doing everything all the time always and everywhere. Unlimited possibilities, that’s where my head’s at, but this song isn’t about that. It’s been a semester of bad grades, bad campus coffee and overzealous student body representative candidates and the guy needs a hug. Cups of cold unforgiving synth and droning/sweet pleas. “Keep me warm”.
You can pick it up along with six other tracks on Nearly Oratorio’s Showers EP for five big ones or you can download the single track free. It’s one of the more verbose of the seven. The whole thing reminds me of a 2012 Pinback. Very pretty, a little melancholy but not mired in the depths of self-pity.
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