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.

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