If T.S. Eliot were alive today. He'd be front row center to see the relentlessly creative collective, the Gin Club. The Gin Club releases an album titled "Junk." A masterfully produced, soulful double album that picks from an incredible ripple on the wave of momentum of good music that hails from the Australian music scene. Their stream of consciousness style hearkens back to great bands like Pink Floyd and a hit of Bob Dylan's cross to electric, and moves to today with the precious writing styles like Beck and Yo La Tengo fused the grittiness of Tom Waits. The Gin Club is guaranteed to bring you down to your knees as you fall for them, and fall for them hard. Above all, these folks are as much artists as skilled musicians.


Tr. 1 "Ten Paces Away" – This opening track surely will turn on anyone that suffers from the lack of modern life. Opening with a rouge like turbulence hearkening back to early jazz club scenes, the song progresses into modernity with rocking transitions and a great chorus.

Tr. 5 "On A Mountain" – This song moves from foothill to pinnacle with such curvy grace and precision. The towering execution of this track is spectacular! Vocals and harmonies are a perfect dance with the subtly unique phrasing. Seamlessly the track progresses forward until it reaches the tail end of the song where listeners finally reach an incredible rock plateau, viewing a horizon as all darkness fades into light.

Tr. 8 "An Horse" – This track is an incredible mixture of many different elements. With Lucy loose lyrics the track slides into and out of a chill funk that the Gin Club is all about. The band dynamic is soulful and playful, as the track includes organ vibing as horns hailing down like lightning. The drumming and guitar playing is simply phenomenal. "An Horse" ends with a penultimate slow down and even halt, then explodes with yet another signature ending. It seems that many of their tracks end with a joyful celebration, much like the dawn of day—which likened to the such great heights that Icelandic band Sigur Ros generates.

Tr. 14 "Junk" – Bridget Lewis is sensational in this track. The song captures the modern human condition in it's innocence while lost in a wasteland of parts of a whole. Folk in nature, this song in it's simplicity disarms and enlightens the everyday with a very special outlook on the missing pieces of life.

Tr. 24 "Boat, You've Been Drinking" – An incredible collage of images of a boat. This poetic piece celebrates the life and death of an old dilapidated boat, a metaphor elegy of the loss of youth. Wonderful art.
 

Reviewed by Ron Ingalla at Bryan Farrish Radio Promotion
 

About Ron Edward Ingalla
I'm a Berkeley English graduate looking to work on my writing craft and to publish my work. A poet and musician at heart, I'm looking to spread creativity creatively.