Taste Test: Julia and the Basement Tapes are ‘Drifting’ away
The blues-rock band hit upon enlightenment after a breakup.
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Aftermath of a breakup goes in stages. There are the obvious cycles through which you must wade: anger, denial, loneliness. But then, once you shed each of those, there comes enlightenment and the realization that it’s all now only faint images falling further into your rearview mirror. Swedish blues band Julia and the Basement Tapes ⏤ of Julia-Lotta Tinglöf, Johan Borgh, Samuel Söderberg and Johannes Sidenqvist ⏤ hit such a threshold, and their bodies appear to float out of themselves. “Drifting” is coated in a thick layer of blues-rock guitar, rubbing out the last traces of pain, and lead singer Tinglöf lassoes the music with a celestial quality. Her tone is slippery, too, yet it aches in just the right amounts, and she soon returns back to earth to take up the story already set before her. “I’ve been watching shows about love / Trying to learn,” she sings. However, what’s done is already coursing through her body, and all she needs to do is wait.
“Drifting” is another sampling to their forthcoming, still untitled, new album.
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