Recording for Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label, Salami Rose Joe Louis (Lindsay Olsen) has blazed a particular path in that fertile sector of California’s underground the place digital music and jazz converge. On early releases by this multi-instrumentalist and producer—similar to 2019’s Zdenka 2080—Olsen sings in a hushed, dulcet method over sparse, melodious digital music that wears its jazz inflections gracefully. Faint echoes of ’90s and ’00s introspective, minimalist IDM (clever dance music, if you do not know) acts similar to Múm insinuate themselves, too. It is in the end dream pop, however not within the cloying manner manifested by the style’s try-hards.
With 2023’s Akousmatikous and this yr’s collab with Flanafi, Sarah, SRJL’s rhythms get jazzier and the instrumentation fuller, with assist from Soccer96 and Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, amongst others. The songs are extra kinetic whereas the vocals retain their breathy, Julee Cruise-like sweetness. The music’s levitational really feel and clean propulsion belie lyrics about catastrophic ecological degradation and the hazards of propaganda/disinformation. Enchanting listeners by means of understatement and mutedly glowing tones, Olsen presents essentially the most nice dystopian sci-fi soundtracks extant. For this present at Madame Lou’s tonight, she’ll be joined by guitarist Flanafi, bassist Tone Whitfield, and drummer Luke Titus—most of whom performed on the distinctive new Salami Dwell at 2131 North Kacey Road EP.
Salami Rose Joe Louis performs Madame Lou’s Monday, Nov 11, 7:30 pm, $21, 21+.
