Nearly Oratorio – Juniper
If you brought my accountant Trevor in here and said “Trevor, break the numbers down for me”, he’d immediately tell you that across the board, through the years of Sound Doctrine, Simon Lam is the most written about artist. I’d ask you not to though, because Trevor bills by the hour and I’ve not paid his last two invoices so I’d prefer if you didn’t invite him onto my digital property. Oh good grief, he heard you say his name and he’s here already. GO HOME TREVOR.
Admittedly I’ve never written about Simon Lam under his own name, covering him as one third of I’lls, one half of Kllo and one hundred percent of Nearly Oratorio. It’s in his most holistic format that we’re hearing him again tonight, the face voice and production behind Nearly Oratorio. I like to think of this as his low-risk project, where he can release whatever he damn wants and to hell with the critical and commercial outcome. It’s the liberation from consequence I suspect, that means it’s here that he offers up some of his best art, and the new one Juniper proves me right again.
His vocals are tiny, the keys are caressed and it’s the sort of song you find yourself physically leaning towards, hoping to glean its inner secrets via closer inspection. Try as you might, you won’t crack it, for Lam is warlock of the highest order and his secrets won’t be plumbed by your normie energy. Cop the song, EP on the way soon.
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