そのピュアな歌声に心打たれること間違いナシ! USインディフォーク実力派 デビュー作

メイン州の片田舎で生まれ育ち、アメリカ各地を転々。現在は生まれ故郷を拠点とし活動をするインディフォーク/シンガーソングライター、LOUISA STANCIOFFが、YEP ROCよりデビューアルバムをリリース! フォーク、カントリーなど、USルーツ・ミュージックをベースに程よくリバーブを効かせたギターに繊細なトラック・センスが際立った楽曲。そして細部までに感情豊かな描写をした歌詞と儚くも美しいヴォーカルがとにかく素晴らしい! 決して派手さは無いものの、一聴すればその確かな才能に釘付けになること間違いナシでしょう。

発売・販売元 提供資料 （2024/02/29）

After growing up with music and touring for a few years in a band with her cousin, Maine native Louisa Stancioff set out on her own. Moving around the country to places as distant as Alaska and Southern California, she worked odd jobs while building up her guitar skills and writing songs. When she eventually recorded her debut album in Maine with producer/multi-instrumentalist Sam Kassirer (Josh Ritter, Lake Street Dive), the songs she had in hand were steeped in heartbreak and uncertainty. Stylistically, the album, When We Were Looking, manifests a merger of alt-country, indie folk, and dreamy psychedelia, all behind a feathery, doleful voice that takes up residence in the clouds. After a count-off, Stancioffs airy vocals are introduced with the line "I know you said youre sorry" on "Gold," an ambling, strummed-guitar number with passing washes of synthesizer, echoey piano, and distant guitar. A rhythm section and harmony vocals appear on and off in the second half of the song, which ends in a cappella fashion with the quiet understanding that she gave more than she got in the relationship. That songs light twang, dusty atmosphere, poignant resignation, and cinematic qualities persist throughout an album that leans into psychedelic country-rock territory on the epic, key-shifting "Nobodys Watching" ("You always said you wanted nothing/Now I see you want it all to yourself"), introduces fiddle (by Stancioff) on the gloomy, abandonment-themed "Emma," and seems to lift the sultry riffs of Lou Reeds "Sweet Jane" (or, more precisely, Cowboy Junkies "Sweet Jane") on "Cigarette," which confronts an ex with, "Heard you’ve got a new girlfriend/She’s really hot/So why are you looking at me like you used to?" With the pastel- instead of gray-tinted "End of Your Song," Stancioff closes the album with a lilting tribute to an ending that has yet to be written, while also announcing the arrival of an artist fully formed. ~ Marcy Donelson

Rovi