Published at 11:30 am.
Will calm precede the storm for Jimmy Hunt this Friday, marked by a double release for the Gaspésie songwriter? Does he first invite us to listen to “Kingdom”, a six-piece with airy synthetic sounds typical of the 1980s, or to devour the excited Gros-Bec, an eight-piece where acid is one of the ingredients? to prepare very dense cakes? Difficult to answer these questions when the main interested party claims that the two albums must have been born on the same day, like two non-identical twins.
So let’s begin with Kingdom, this six-part contemplative adventure. Hunt strips away the rock elements and strips away the folk and pop boundaries we’ve been hoping for since his great Maladie d’amour (2013). So smoothed and stripped, the backbone of this soundtrack consists of steamy electronic elements sourced from an 808 drum machine, slow-toned synths and well-used reverb, particularly at the end of the offering, on tracks “Poet” and “Eternity.” “.
Certainly the originality is not there – we think of the work of Michel Cusson in “Omerta” and Vangelis in “Blade Runner 1984” – but the sensory experience offered by Jimmy Hunt in “Kingdom” proves soothing.
After this eardrum massage, which lasts a little under half an hour, we set off on the rocky road to Gros-bec, Hunt’s second toy, released this Friday. The first is brutal. What we hear there comes from recording sessions – with his new companion, the instrumentalist Pierre-Guy Blanchard – that initially remained in limbo, where alcohol and illegal chemicals had penetrated the two musicians’ cortex. The rustic aspect of the offering will deter those who, due to lack of time or interest, do not bother to count the number of listens to this CD. Because yes, you must have these two elements to enjoy these eight compositions.
Despite all our good will, we remain hungry and tell ourselves that there is little in this Gros-bec to sink our teeth into, apart from the mesmerizing Tout nu dans labay and the finale, all in conventional and accessible rock, the track Thank you for your book.
After listening to this soaring-dissonant mix, and a bit like the sun always comes after a storm, we’re now hoping that Jimmy Hunt returns to more pop and colorful sounds, where we hope when he’s not at the mic with his group Chocolat sits.
Excerpted from Naked in the Bay
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