New Jonathan Boulet Video - "A Community Service Announcement"
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 - "A Community Service Announcement (The Album Leaf Remix)" (MP3)
Jonathan Boulet is out 12/4 via Modular. More to listen at MySpace.
Posted at 5:09 PM by amrit in Video
Tags: Jonathan Boulet
i'm highly impressed
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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...
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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
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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!
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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!
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if this song was a book, i'd read the shit out of that shit.
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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.
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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.
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