I
actually first saw the name Julianna Barwick on a show poster from Shana
Falana, who were opening for her. I then
looked her up on Band Camp, and consequently Spotify, found this album and
decided to review it since it also showed me the tour date of her opening for
Sigur Ros.
I never
really pictured Barwick as being a singer/songwriter type because she was headlining
a show with Shana Falana and so I only imagined it would shoegaze or something
along those lines.
While
it is somewhat in the genre of shoegaze, it really has more of a spatial feel,
an ambient sense to it if you will. But what really grabbed me about it was that
this music was so gender neutral, and it created such a huge atmosphere that I
immediately fell in love.
There
are these vocals on the first few songs that sound more just like backing
vocals than anything, and if you weren’t aware of them being female based on
the name “Julianna”, then you probably would just live in your non-gender world
and be completely happy.
If
these first few songs cannot get you into this album on a whole, and win you
over as a fan of Barwick as it has done me, then I don’t really know what else
to tell you because you just don’t have good taste in music.
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