Wintercoats - Windmill (mp3)
Not entirely unlike a subdued, Melbournian Owen Pallett, James Wallace's music under the title Wintercoats is the sound of a glacier thawing. In a nice way mind you, with none of the nasty climate change connotations... just the natural ebb and flow of a slowly moving body of ice melting and refreezing under a winter sun.
Thus ended one of the more masturbatory passages on this blog, but not an entirely inaccurate one. Througout his Cathedral EP Wallace blends his knack for subtly chanted but involving vocal melodies with lightly pulsating string loops, and the result is pretty damn beautiful. While playing with imagery and influences drawn from the kind of romanticised winters found well above the equator, there is something Jae Laffer (The Panics) about his voice that lends a nice antipodean twist to some very Northen Hemisphere sounds.
Earlier in the month he also released a new track from his second EP, which while not quite as instantly brilliant as some Cathedral cuts still serves as quite an exciting prelude.
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