This dude’s the latest signing to Australia’s Modular label, landing with a tidy package of promotional offerings: a catchy, moistly breezy indie-pop debut single that couldn’t be better titled for a meet-the-artist track; a subtly arresting/marginally tricked-out video; and a slightly more ambient take-away remix by long-time post-rocker the Album Leaf. Here’s to good starts. We’re told Boulet is 21 and a Sydney skate rat. Which means skate rat music in Sydney is a far cry from the shit-encrusted lo-fi tracks coming from skaters on our own west coast, or Boulet is an outlier wielding his board with a softer heel. Irrelevant — the point is it’s better produced and warmer edged, perfectly calibrated as a respite from the approaching cold here, or a reminder of how temperate things in the Aussie hemisphere are the rest of the year. “A Community Service Announcement” practically drips with humidity, a honeyed guitar bit pushed along by tropical toms, a pop song’s forward movement that’s fit for cruise boat line-dancing. If that sounds ripe for the OST to a Disney film set in some sunny climes well… it sort of is. But then there’s this Special Problems-directed video where someone gets offed and dumped into a lake, suggesting their might be some menace beneath the mellifluousness. We’ll need more than one Boulet track to fully suss. Until then, here’s a community service announcement:
Jonathan Boulet is out 12/4 via Modular. More to listen at MySpace.
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i’m highly impressed
wow. they play this a lot on triple j, the good music station in australia. much different to the rest of the modular sound.
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Yeah, ok, fuck you too…
so awesome to see boulet getting some international attention, such a great song
there’s a whole heap of great aussie bands popping up at the moment
the clips amazing too
Yes boulet is very nice! 3,2,1, go is another Boulet song that JJJ has been busting out and is just as good. On ya Aussies!
This song & video are really great.
(You probably didn’t need to read that; I just wanted to say it.)
Australia on the up-n-up!
if this song was a book, i’d read the shit out of that shit.
If you want to hear more to “fully suss”, I highly recommend 321 Ready or Not. It isn’t on youtube (as far as I know), but a google search will bring it up.
If you want to hear more to “fully suss”, I highly recommend 321 Ready or Not. It isn’t on youtube (as far as I know), but a google search will bring it up.