A recent release from The Noonan Trio comes through with a radical display of rambunctious and animated soundscapes and approaches that combine everything from a theatrical and almost garage undertone style to sporadic and avant-garde jazz feels that feature wild piano sections and vocals that dip in and out like you heard them in a dream somewhere.
The Inherit a Memory album is lush in its own right but does not exactly follow any kind of constructed formats that you would expect to hear especially in normal societal genre standards. This is outside the box and thinking with a freeing sense of songwriting instead.
Certain tracks have a little bit of a haunt to them. They feel like a waking nightmare for glimpses of time while other ones take you through these warm jazz tracks and no matter what you're getting, it's something that sort of stays with you and gets under your skin in the strangest ways.
The funny thing about this record is that the vocals end up bringing in this sense of Indie pop underbelly and I love that because it Still Remains theatrical and as a matter of fact, those vocals actually add to that theatrical sensation as well but, it's still also bringing in that indie feel.
I love that combination because it's taking something so contemporary and so classic and bringing it into a sort of Indie pop realm for certain parts of the record.
This is 100% a record that you need to listen to from beginning to end because if you only listen to one or two songs from it then you will not really get the full spectrum of what the album has to offer as a whole.
This is a record with tons of layers and again, this stuff gets on your skin and weird ways, so you end up picturing things while the songs unfold and whatever your imagination pulls up is what your imagination pulls up.
The music has a way of showing you in a certain direction and your mind fills in certain kinds of blank spaces image-wise and story-wise.
This is a masterpiece and an opus of a release and the piano work across the board is something that has a way of sort of dazzling and blowing your mind. Pianos are performed by Matthew Bourne who is an absolute innovator in the world of jazz piano, and you can clearly hear this on the record.
Bassist of Michael Barton really lays it out on this record too and it's just all so incredibly unique and strangely addicting. You just keep wanting more and more of it.
Of course, Sean Noonan forms drums and also vocals as far as I can tell.
The vocals do indeed give a sort of narration to the record at different aspects but there is such a thick resignation of sound and texture that comes from this record and those elements hint towards contemporary and classic influences that helped build this record while this layer of a sort of radicalism sits atop everything and gives such thick character and robust personality to every track.
Listen to this record with headphones on and again, I would urge you to do the entire thing because you won't even get an idea or a gist by listening to one or two songs.
Listening with headphones on is one of my favorite ways to listen to this record in particular because there's a lot happening and sometimes, they happen fast. The changes can come and go quickly. The instrumentation in the course that they take can change the drop of a dime and for you to catch everything, headphones are the best way.
That of course, is my opinion but I would trust me on this one.
Take a deep dive into this record and see what it does for you because it's going to certainly do something.
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