Does the calm precede the storm at Jimmy Hunt on this Friday marked by a double release for the songwriter from Gaspésie? Does he invite us first to listen Kingdoma six-piece with aerial synthetic sounds typical of the 1980s, or to devour the restless Big beak, an eight-piece where acid is one of the ingredients used to make this very dense cake rise? Difficult to answer these questions, when the main interested party suggests that the two albums had to be born on the same day, like two non-identical twins.
So let’s start with Kingdom, this contemplative adventure of six pieces. Hunt chases away the rock elements and strips away the folk and pop envelopes that we have been hoping for since his childhood. Love sickness (2013). Thus smoothed and stripped, the backbone of this soundtrack is composed of vaporous electro elements taken from an 808 drum machine, synthesizers with languid notes and a well-exploited reverberation, mainly at the end of the offering, on rooms Poet And Eternity.
Certainly, the originality is not there – we think of the work of Michel Cusson on Omerta and Vangelis on Blade Runner 1984 –, but the sensory experience offered by Jimmy Hunt on Kingdom turns out to be calming.
After this eardrum massage of a little less than half an hour, we take the rocky road to Big beak, Hunt’s second toy released this Friday. The first is brutal. What we hear there is extracted from recording sessions – with his new companion, the instrumentalist Pierre-Guy Blanchard – left in the lurch at first, where alcohol and illicit chemicals had invited themselves into the cortex of the two musicians. The rustic aspect of the offer will put off those who do not make the effort to add up the listenings of this disc, due to lack of time or lack of interest. Because yes, you must have these two elements at your disposal to appreciate these eight compositions.
Despite all our good will, we remain hungry, telling ourselves that there is little to get our teeth into in this Big beakbesides the hypnotizing All naked in the bay and the finale all in conventional and accessible rock, the piece Thank you for your book.
After listening to this soaring-dissonant mix, and a bit like the sun always comes after a storm, we now hope that Jimmy Hunt returns to more pop and colorful sounds, where we hope, when he is not at microphone of his group Chocolat.
Extract of All naked in the bay
Alternative – atmosphere
Kingdom
Jimmy Hunt
Bravo Music
Alternative
Big beak
Jimmy Hunt
Bravo Music