He Can Jog – Norwood, Wisconsin
As He Can Jog Erik Schoster seems to love the larger than life, wall of sound pop music gesture. The first track of his “Norwood, Wisconsin” album is a breath taking mixture of multi harmonic vocals, layered on top of each other, catchy melodies, thick textures, stuttery granular pads intertwined with more twists and turns than a latin american telenovela. All this sonic madness is stretched out to a more than 20 minutes long piece that manages to never looses its focus. This alone makes this album an absolute beautiful piece of work and I would have been already happy, if the album just consisted of this very track.
The other two tracks pick up, where the first one ended. Grainy, jittery textures, beautiful harmonies and melodies populate the last 22 minutes. Those two tracks are a little noisier than the first one and drift a little into the ambient noise territory, but never loose their warm character.
“Norwood, Wisconsin” is a soft, warm cushion to sink into. A gleaming thought of beautifully wasted summer afternoons in the flickering shadows of trees moving slowly in the wind.
