Eskimeaux: “Littoral Lullaby”

06 Nov 2012 — Tonje Thilesen

Following their wonderfully organic fourth release Two Mountains, the sincere pop melodies of Philadelphia duo Eskimeaux return with yet another beautiful work of art, based on a collection of demos that have been re-worked into "sonically cohesive, fully formed, calcified and crystallized songs", resulting into their second full-lenght Eskimeaux. Comparing this to their earlier works, vocalist Gabriella Smith receives company of a faint, but significally more computer-based production, in many ways like an isolated child of Hundred Waters, but sulked in a more organic, almost anatomical tonal structure. Smith also has a way of presenting her music as effortlessly intellectual, something that draws her and the experimental pop of Julia Holter closer together as composers.

Have a first listen to "Littoral Lullaby", taken off Eskimeaux out today on Human Kindness Overflowing.