Jolie Laide is a collaboration between Nina Nastasia and Jeff MacLeod, this album their debut as a duo. The guitar and instrumentation feels like slow surf rock or maybe spaghetti western, and then there’s a weight to Nina Nastasia’s lyrics and vocals. Nine tracks and clocking in at just 28 minutes. I think this is great.
It’s really quite incredible imo! Strange and dense and esoteric, but at the same time, highly listenable and enjoyable and… fun! I had a proper eyes-closed headphones listen yesterday morning, and was completely blown away by it, just washed over me beautifully. Bought the digi on Bandcamp immediately. Massive rec on this one!
Absolutely nobody, anywhere talking about this album. Bonkers. It’s sensational. Space Afrika are incredible, made some incredible music over the last few years and the collaborators make it feel like a summation, or a moment in time, of where British music on the fringes is right now. Adore it.
The vocoded vocals are letting this album down for me. Annoying as I really liked Honest Labour. Maybe I’ll start not hearing them but every song with that vocode effect grates.
Sound art. An experimental/ambient album and an accompanying video work based on Doggerland, the land that used to stretch between today’s coast of Britain and Europe, and the artist’s search for the remnants of the submerged forest of Doggerland on the Lincolnshire coast.