So here we have a cute little record, just trying to find its place in the world. By that I mean there is a little bit of every genre on this album. Kind of like when parents catch their children dressing up in their clothes.
It’s cute, and you may even want to take a picture. In Jon and Roy’s case; they recorded a record and called it Another Noon.
Another Noon is a minimalistic approach to expressing what seem to be pretty much all of Jon and Roy’s influences on just one record. With only acoustic guitars, drums, percussion, and raspy vocals, Jon and Roy make a very big splash with very small stones.
The first half of this record comes off as modern folk music with beautiful finger picked guitar lines, and well crafted vocal lines. The second half; however, is all over the place.
Some songs feel like Sublime, some have a Jack Johnson vibe. Some even visit a hip-hop groove with dope drum beats and back to back vocals portraying copious amounts of drinking and profane monikers for the female gender.
On the song ‘Stress,’ Jon sings “I felt like riotin all night, and I felt like gettin into a fist fight, and I felt like hittin the first motherf**k who acted anything like a jerk.” But don’t judge until you’ve heard the whole song. The track is actually about not succumbing to the demons in the brain that make us act out irrationally.
‘Sunday Market,’ has a bit of a Disney feel to it though. I can just picture some animated character making his way across a beach, stuck in a montage, while Jon and Roy’s choppy guitars and quick vocals play in the background…in a good way.
In fact, the whole record is an intensely soulful testimony which states who Jon and Roy are as people and musicians. Their lyrics are honest, their music is calming, and damn it, I like it! I only wish this record had come out in the summer.
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