Музыка и песни Beauregard, Jack / Beauregard, Jack

Artist: Jack Beauregard Label: Tapete

With "Irrational", Jack Beauregard have succeeded in allowing the listener to completely forget what instruments are being played, which words are saying what, and in what style this music might be categorized. They move elegantly between song and track, between the straight bass drum and the "I love you, I love you not" – a melancholy dilemma that can be found within every melodic phrase of this record. With their third album, Pär Lammers and Daniel Schaub have achieved the kind of independence and universality that, for example, can bring an author to distrust his words and make him forget his work. The music says, "Put the pen away, shut down the computer, listen closely, dream on." A dream is not a bad analogy for what holds the ten songs on "Irrational" together. The music and lyrics play with memories of situations that never happened, yet seem more real than everything that actually did happen. "This ship is on fire, but it's leaving the harbor" sings Daniel like a man who was on board, but has no idea how he managed to reach land unscathed. "Not That Kind", the first single from the album, describes how it mostly is: "It's not that bad, it's not that kind." This state between euphoria and despondency – one might say the normal state, which is good because it contains all shades within itself – has rarely been celebrated as beautifully as in this song. The entire album travels through time, exploring the styles of the last, say, 50 years: The Gaussian blur of Simon and Garfunkel, the rhythmic framework of "Rockit" era Herbie Hancock, the nursery rhyme melodies of Robert Palmer and Nik Kershaw, the magic of great pop albums from "Rumours" to "Thriller" to "Alphabetical". All of that shines through the music like the sun through the parchment. Yet there is never a fence post in sight: Jack Beauregard have internalized their heroes far too much to be eclectic. On "Irrational" Pär Lammers and Daniel Schaub have simply made their music, showing everywhere they have ever been. And we can dance to it or we can cry to it. Or both. CD, Album

Style: Pop