Josiah Wolf - Jet Lag

Our review
Customer reviews
Press release
Soundclips

4...according to our Clinton on Fri 26 Mar, 2010.

I went to see Why? the other week. I was amazed at how many people were there and how brimming with enthusiasm they were. Brilliant. I had missed the support act Josiah Wolf. He is the brother of Yoni Wolf, the animal-from-the-muppets like drummer whose hair veers from a neat fuzz to full on wild afro mode depending on the time of year. Here is his debut solo lp entitled 'Jet Lag'. Its a sterling first effort. The Wolf DNA has definitely been passed down though Josiah's mode is much more mellow and folky rather than the frantic and quirky. On first listen i wondered if it was a little wishy washy but on second play the melodies are coming through strong and you can see why he hasn't overdone it on the dynamics and kept the songs simple and full of space. Comparisons would be the obvious - the folkier side of Why? and Fog and the less obvious Mountain Goats, Radar Brothers, Silver Jews. On Anticon.

To play these clips you need to either update your browser (Norman Records recommends Google Chrome) or update your Flash plugin.

Solo debut from WHY? drummer, Josiah Wolf

Mixed by younger brother Yoni Wolf (WHY?, cLOUDDEAD)

On his debut album, WHY? multi-instrumentalist Josiah Wolf offers up a rare solo work with true legs of its own. His voice deep and straight at times and impossibly fragile at others, Wolf deals both in visual snapshots that illustrate the wistfulness of a mundane moment, and canny excavations of those poignancies that lie beneath the surface: tough triumphs, tougher truths, and outright failures.

Wolf’s lean poems are set to an autumnal mix of warm folk and easy psychedeliplayed out (by Wolf alone) on guitar, vibes, kalimba, Hammond organ, bells, bass and drums to name a few. The end result is a sort of chamber pop minus the showy sweeps virtuosity without the virtuoso – making Jet Lag as impressive in its subtleexecution as it is a timeless, heartfelt listen.

TRACKLIST: 1. The Trailer And The Truck 2. Master Cleanse (California) 3. The Opposite Of Breathing 4. The New Car 5. Skull In The Ice 6. The Apart Meant 7. That Kind Of Man 8. Ohioho 9. Is The Body Hung 10. In The Seam 11. Gravity Defied 11. The One Sign

Be the first to review this record. Best reviewer each month gets £10 off their next order!