Barchords
Bahamas
Universal Music.
“Lost In the Light”,
handily one of the best tracks I’ve heard all year, recently placed prominently
in a commercial for a jewelry company. I get that it’s a payday and I’m happy Afie
Jurvanen’s had a successful year. Still, there are ample instances on Barchords
that suggest an artist developing head and shoulders above today’s indie rites
of passage. Much like “Lost In the Light”, tracks like “Never Again”, “Be My
Witness” and “Time and Time Again” carry an air of timelessness, behaving more
like statements of intent than something construable as an advertisement
jingle.
Nothing quite
touches that soul-shaking first track but Barchords’ well-paced variety proves
Jurvanen’s adeptness for acoustic balladry (“Montreal”), laid-back electric
jams (“Your Sweet Touch”) and upbeat pop (“Okay, Alright, I’m Alive”). In
other words, there’s too much on display here to suggest that Bahamas isn’t a
career artist in the making.
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