Perth
Meet your guy Hector Morlet who plays Clarinet and sang this song. He’s got a bunch of soundcloud lo-fi hip-hop beat type records floating around that are really quite nice, particularly those you’ll find on his descriptively titled ‘Hec’s 10:00 [EP]‘. It runs for 10 minutes, that’s extremely accurate. The songs I like most from that release are the ones where he’s spilled his vocals across them, low slung and draped in comfort like an afterthought while he calmly produced the beats live. It’s warm and homely, as the truest bedroom hip-hop beats should always be. Here’s another I really appreciated called Golden Sheets.
He also did a bit of a sing for Noah Dillon and is one of the merry band of Bush Chooks that Jack Davies has assembled. He’s evidently a man about Perth, someone vested in a community. We should talk about Picture Frame though, because it’s quite a long way from any of those soundclouds I mentioned. On this, his first kinda… ‘official’ single I guess, he’s gone yachting on the French Riviera, holidaying in a Neapolitan coastal manse. It’s a timeshare Still Woozy with a short term booking courtesy of Kings of Convenience paid for entirely in the credit of that clarinet. I know I’ve already said it, but I’d like you to acknowledge that you’ve heard me when I remind you that it is indeed Hec himself on that ‘Rinet (shoutout to my woodwind heads) as well as every other instrument on the track I think maybe.
Indie Randy Newman really killed it with Picture Frame, a track I’ve listened to at least 15 times in the past week already. Gorgeous and thick on groove, hang this in the… hang it in… HANG THIS IN THE LOUVRE I’M SO SORRY.
My critics, curse those bastards, have said time and time again that Sound Doc has too many words and not enough songs so here are no more than a few about Grace Sanders, Perth songwriter and producer. The song is called Dissipate and it moves in three parts, a gently strummed acoustic opening, a SZA-esque middle section and an emphatic autotuned section over a trip-hop beat. Part three is where you’ll get the most meat on the bone and even though you’ve no patience for my text, I’d encourage you not to rush the song. Let it unfold around you, slowly and intentionally, thick with melodies that become more memorable each time she repeats them. It’s artfully produced by Ezekial Padmanabhan whom I don’t know much about but would now very much like to. I’ve come back to it many times over these past few weeks developing favourite and least favourite lyrics (butterfly lyric bad, grain of sand lyric good). Anywho, I said brevity and you’ll have brevity. Imbibe this song.
I promised myself I’d write more on this world wide website and the only way I’m gonna make that happen is via stream of consciousness immediacy – putting the words on the page before I can think too hard about them. In this instance it’s a semi-valid format for a song that’s similarly immediate. It’s got the energy and agression of oldschool hardcore, a compressed metallic breakbeat and the depressed swagger of modern hip-hop. It’s a rolled up tracksuit leg at your cousin’s mate’s cousin’s bush doof, accessorized with glowsticks and a spiked necklace. Freak aren’t dressed for comfort and the aesthetic isn’t uniform but somehow it’s cohesive. They’re a duo made up Perth beatmaker slash vocalist Max Black and Perth otherguy Seul and though I don’t know who’s doing what, I know that they’re doing it right. I got the chance to spin it on the radio this afternoon and lemme tell you, it filled the half hour with energy I had no idea I was missing. This goes.
Does this project have legs? I don’t know, I hope so. They’re key members of Perth’s Tuff Boys crew so seeing the two come together on a project hasn’t shaken me to my core, but I didn’t suspect it’d sound like this. Into it.
So I’ll tell you what my mum has been telling me for at least two decades: You need to pay more attention to HAIRCARE. I’m gonna edge out on a limb here and suggest that you probably haven’t listened to this band before today and if you have, well colour me impressed and proud. Today they received the Sound Doc seal of approval which industry estimates have valued at anywhere between 6-11 Spotify streams. This is only single two for HAIRCARE so we’re not kilometers deep into a storied career.
I was put across this Perth four piece yesterday morning having been told that they’d made fans out of some of Perth’s musical top tier and I’ve not stopped listening to their newest single since. ‘Blinding Cordoned States’ is full of lo-fi synths, tender guitar parts and a vocal from old mate that hits you with all the urgency of The Walkmen. The chorus pops like an overinflated balloon and I quite simply haven’t been able to sit down since the first time I heard it. This is actually really bad and I urgently need someone to send help, my legs are be fixed in a literal state of living rigor mortis. You’re not hearing me, please stop reading this and send a doctor I’m in an incredible amount of pain.
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