Son
Rosie Lowe & Duval Timothy
Son
Boomkat Product Review:
'Son' flows like water, infusing lifted choral harmonies with R&B flourishes, freewheeling jazz instrumentation and evocative environmental recordings. This is spine-tingling, ineffably beautiful music that's so human it practically breathes.
It's hard to describe the mood on Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy's sharp new EP without using the word 'transcendent'. The duo start from a core appreciation of choral music, so that passion forms the basis of each track. From there, anything goes: the music is relatively minimal in its construction (and admirably purposed) but grabs jagged shards of inspiration from anywhere and everywhere. So ambient cloudiness is absorbed into post-Kanye vocal processing, jazzy piano loops remind of classic boom-bap, neo soul vocalizing rubs against tight, minimal James Blake-esque beatplay.
'Son' excels because both artists express their love of music as they tangle with various guest players in London and Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, and so while retaining a completely coherent vision. It's future-facing but completely conscious of the long history of praise music, soul and blues. When field recordings poke through looping vocals or skipping choruses, they simply serve to remind us that these songs feature more than a computer and a microphone - it's documentation of real people in real places, and they're inviting us to join in.
Gorgeous.
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Boomkat Product Review:
'Son' flows like water, infusing lifted choral harmonies with R&B flourishes, freewheeling jazz instrumentation and evocative environmental recordings. This is spine-tingling, ineffably beautiful music that's so human it practically breathes.
It's hard to describe the mood on Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy's sharp new EP without using the word 'transcendent'. The duo start from a core appreciation of choral music, so that passion forms the basis of each track. From there, anything goes: the music is relatively minimal in its construction (and admirably purposed) but grabs jagged shards of inspiration from anywhere and everywhere. So ambient cloudiness is absorbed into post-Kanye vocal processing, jazzy piano loops remind of classic boom-bap, neo soul vocalizing rubs against tight, minimal James Blake-esque beatplay.
'Son' excels because both artists express their love of music as they tangle with various guest players in London and Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, and so while retaining a completely coherent vision. It's future-facing but completely conscious of the long history of praise music, soul and blues. When field recordings poke through looping vocals or skipping choruses, they simply serve to remind us that these songs feature more than a computer and a microphone - it's documentation of real people in real places, and they're inviting us to join in.
Gorgeous.
Boomkat Product Review:
'Son' flows like water, infusing lifted choral harmonies with R&B flourishes, freewheeling jazz instrumentation and evocative environmental recordings. This is spine-tingling, ineffably beautiful music that's so human it practically breathes.
It's hard to describe the mood on Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy's sharp new EP without using the word 'transcendent'. The duo start from a core appreciation of choral music, so that passion forms the basis of each track. From there, anything goes: the music is relatively minimal in its construction (and admirably purposed) but grabs jagged shards of inspiration from anywhere and everywhere. So ambient cloudiness is absorbed into post-Kanye vocal processing, jazzy piano loops remind of classic boom-bap, neo soul vocalizing rubs against tight, minimal James Blake-esque beatplay.
'Son' excels because both artists express their love of music as they tangle with various guest players in London and Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, and so while retaining a completely coherent vision. It's future-facing but completely conscious of the long history of praise music, soul and blues. When field recordings poke through looping vocals or skipping choruses, they simply serve to remind us that these songs feature more than a computer and a microphone - it's documentation of real people in real places, and they're inviting us to join in.
Gorgeous.
Boomkat Product Review:
'Son' flows like water, infusing lifted choral harmonies with R&B flourishes, freewheeling jazz instrumentation and evocative environmental recordings. This is spine-tingling, ineffably beautiful music that's so human it practically breathes.
It's hard to describe the mood on Rosie Lowe and Duval Timothy's sharp new EP without using the word 'transcendent'. The duo start from a core appreciation of choral music, so that passion forms the basis of each track. From there, anything goes: the music is relatively minimal in its construction (and admirably purposed) but grabs jagged shards of inspiration from anywhere and everywhere. So ambient cloudiness is absorbed into post-Kanye vocal processing, jazzy piano loops remind of classic boom-bap, neo soul vocalizing rubs against tight, minimal James Blake-esque beatplay.
'Son' excels because both artists express their love of music as they tangle with various guest players in London and Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, and so while retaining a completely coherent vision. It's future-facing but completely conscious of the long history of praise music, soul and blues. When field recordings poke through looping vocals or skipping choruses, they simply serve to remind us that these songs feature more than a computer and a microphone - it's documentation of real people in real places, and they're inviting us to join in.
Gorgeous.
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