Saunder Juriaans - Beasts


I know what Beasts are, but what the hell is a Saunder Juriaans? Ooooh, he's a "film composer," so this is probably some type of singer-songwriter side quest or something. Makes total sense, unless I'm wrong.

Ooooh, the lead off track, All Just Talkin' is like some generic Hipster Folk with seriously Björk-y orchestration and avant-noisy seque/outro. I can definitely dig it.

Smoky Cabaret piano and chamber orchestra for A Different Shade Of The Same. 

Hipster hand-clapping like we accidentally stepped into a Wes Anderson movie for Easy Now.

Then some psych-rock fooling around before the truly haunting All The Kings Men. Will they put Humpty together again? On to side B to find out. That's not a joke, by the way, it's an album about a fractured personality trying to put the pieces back together after a long period of depression. It was released in 2020 though, so i'm gonna have to misquote Lloyd Bridges and say "looks like I picked the wrong year to stop lyserging all this diethylamide."

Not exactly Rock, but definitely Psych, and a fair bit Baroque Pop, but heavily damaged, not unlike Neutral Milk Hotel. Really, you're gonna hear everything from Midwest Indie to Björk and Radiohead to Michael Bublé and clarinet all over the place, but i'm pretty sure you're going to enjoy it.

TV and art film might be his main gig, but Beasts is a pretty stellar debut album for a solo artist. Saunder Juriaans might be a little hard to remember how to spell, but you should definitely check him out.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Welcome to my blog, and my record collection.

This is a blog about my love of listening to albums. It started off as a nightly perusal of my dad's record collection (which sadly became mine) on my personal facebook page. Over the last two months it has become quite an enjoyable process of simply ranting about what i think is a real art form, the album. It needs a more permanent home. Some of my reviews are positive, some negative. They might not be what you expect from album reviews, but i hope you at least find them entertaining. For the most part i do very little research, and they tend to be train of thought reactions rather than calculated essays. If nothing else, know that i'm really listening to them and whether they are amazing or abysmal i want you to go listen to them too.  I'll start migrating the 60+ i've written so far over here in the next few days, and hopefully get to the point where i just start writing them here. I'd probably even take suggestions if you're just dying to know my tho
Read more

My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Hit & Run Holiday

Image
I noticed today that the strange part of the world who actually knows about My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult has finally accepted that they are in fact "industrial disco." The history of Wax Trax and Chicago industrial music is a subject worthy of an entire library, but MLWTTK is my favorite band to emerge from those humble record store beginnings. They are an unpredictable band for sure, and i definitely don't like all of their albums, but Hit & Run Holiday is an album i think every human being on the planet should hear at least once. This album is simply impossible to describe, because it doesn't actually belong to a musical genre as we understand them. It's actually a movie. I know that sounds weird, but the band is actually a movie. My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult was the name of the movie they were trying to make, but composing the soundtrack led them so far afield that they just shrugged and kept going as a band instead. All of their albums come f
Read more

Eyrth - Meridian

Image
A terrible sadness accompanies the release of Meridian by Latvian Ambient Metal band EYRTH. Since their debut Fracture in early 2019 the band, and indeed the whole world has suffered a global pandemic, intense ideo-political turmoil, the death of friend and bandmate Igor Golovin, and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.  The war in Ukraine still wages on, even though we in the Western hemisphere seem to have largely forgotten. These are turbulent times, and Alex and Andrey are rightfully entering an extended break. We may not see or hear new music from them for a while, if ever, and that is completely understandable. The music they've created, however, is truly breathtaking. Self-described as "Uranium wreckage in audio," the music of Eyrth is every bit as hauntingly beautiful as it is brutally crushing. Close your eyes and you'll quickly find yourself in the achingly cold and desolate wasteland of human technological atrophy. Slow, ponderously heavy, at times rabidly ragi
Read more