It was quite awake in night and I can hear my heart beat
Hopes it cradles me and rocks my bones to sleep
Joe Goddard - Gabriel
With a soothing and quite gospel start to this song you feel sucked into the silence, its as if her soft voice and the steady drums is getting you ready for the ever so current house beat that is to follow. The haunting vocal refrain that we begin with slowly unravels into this smooth main vocal and bass line that gives of that sort of energy that when you hear it you feel like its latched onto your chest and given your lungs a ton of oxygen. The sort of feeling I think every person living in Britain needs with our rainy summers and dreary Monday mornings. Not only is a wicked bass line a necessity to be blasting through your earphones for a little Wednesdaymorninghalfwaytheretotheweekend moments. But its a necessity on a night out, especially for those awkward people like myself that aren't cool enough to body pop, do back flips or break dance on a Saturday night out!
So who is the genius creator of such a song? His name is Joe Goddard, sounds familiar doesn't it? Yes well he's a bear. As in one of The 2 Bears. No don't worry he's not going anywhere, he's just branching off a little and Gabriel is just a taster of what is to become of Joe Goddard.
If you like eery, he does eery. Tracks like "Gabriel" and "All I Know" make sure you are all set for being an eery/odd/moody barsteward for the day! Want something thats a little more back to the basics? Then "Jump" gives you a completely old school and retro house beat with just enough vocals to bring you back from the verge of being "Well into house n that" and wearing those ever so lovely tank tops, sunglasses inside and pouting so much for pictures that that is now just how you look. Nightmare much?! I used to be slightly scared of being into house but not anymore, with producers like these guys giving you remixes of Metronomy and Lykki Li I really don't mind.
So all I can say is listen and enjoy. I'm keeping a very close I on Joe Goddard and his music... AND his beard. Yeh that's right! x
So all I can say is listen and enjoy. I'm keeping a very close I on Joe Goddard and his music... AND his beard. Yeh that's right! x
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