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 Llorca New comer 1x CD FComm |
It was thanks to Howie that I noticed the Llorca album was released
and at first sight this album sounded, well, quite good. Eyebrows raise though when we arrive in the local record store and find a special
label attached on the Llorca CD stating something like "from the man who
discovered St. Germain first" Hmmmmm. What a silly commercial label stating something which is very unlikely. In 1995, when the first
St. Germain album was released, I don't think Llorca was even involved
in creating his own music at that time. Yes, sure another kind of these
simplistic labels to get the attention of the unknowing audience. Ok, that was just a label and that label has long been removed now. Let's get to the music. The typical problem with this kind of albums is that it is what I call : "the wallpaper album". You play the album and start doing something else and before you realize the album is finished but has failed to draw your attention to the music for not even 5 seconds. While listening to Llorca with full attention, it's all ok. There is that huge typical french touch of jazz, here and there latin, soulfull garage influences and from time to time things go a little deeper and funkier. The overal album production and styling are ok, nothing to remark there. The track selection is well laid out, featuring a nice mixture of tracks with vocals and instrumentals, uptempo tracks, laidback tracks, ... nothing to remark there as well. The problem lays in the fact that it is all too clean, too predictable, too typical and thus resulting in a clinical dead album without real warmth and spirit that touches your bones, heart & soul. Ok, maybe we're a little too critical again, but we can't help it. Well, if we have to select a few tracks that stand out a little bit, let's go for "Any how", the typical french instrumental deephouzer, a bit reminiscent of the earlier St. Germain style. Or give the track "My precious thing" a go, with nice sounding Naked records style garage. Or finally we give a thumbs up to "I cry" with Mander Turner for funky breakbeats with soulfull male vocals. So, all in all, my recommendation is : if you already have shitloads of french house and St. Germain like stuff, you might as well skip this album as it doesn't add anything new. If the Tourist album of St. Germain is the only album you have in your collection, then New Comer is nice as complimentary album. ez |
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