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September 1st, 2015 12:26pm

Change The Feeling, Goddammit


Jimmy Whispers “I Get Lost in You in the Summertime”

The past few waves of “lo-fi” music left me cold because it was mostly just a bunch of shitty bands using bad sound to mask their considerable deficiencies and have some sort of hook for lazy music writers. This track is a very different thing, and closer to where Lou Barlow was in the mid-‘90s with Folk Implosion – the sound isn’t bad, but the looseness of the recording highlights a feeling of “let’s just get this on to tape right away.” Jimmy Whispers really makes you feel as though you’re in a little room with him, where he’s bitching about wanting to “change the fucking feeling,” and then plays a sad little song on the organ for you, and maybe he’s making up half the words on the spot. That “in-the-moment” quality suits this particular song very well; that organ drone and sad melody end up feeling like a present tense that seems to extend deep into the horizon. No wonder he’s so anxious to change the feeling.

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