are you referring to the ep? very similar to veneer, expect nothing new.

as for the drake comparison, i see songs like "Deadweight On Velveteen" and "Broken Arrows" very similar to drake's rolling/fingerpicking guitar style, much like a couple of songs from kings of convenience follow suit.

certainly, most of nick drake's songs are in a major key and gonzalez' are mostly in a minor. but i also wouldn't call their voices monotone, they're just not widely dynamic. they both manage to use their voices to carry rhythms just as much as they do their melodies (see drakes' "things behind the sun," "man a shed")

drake has a lot of allusions to nature, light and active "roving" themes. he also had a few somewhat questionable rhyming schemes ("nobody knows/how cold it grows/and nobody sees/how shaky my knees"). gonzalez does too.

drake lines i like:

"think about stories with reason and rhyme
circling through your brain.
and think about people in their season and time
returning again and again"

"do it for you,
sure that you would do the same for me one day."

gonzalez lines i like:

"my moves are slow but soon they'll know
behind the scenes they grow their schemes
hiding intentions, revealing only fractions
their moves are slow but soon you'll know"

"we'll walk along our own path
the one which will lead us to our own bless
but we need hints before we get tired
we need speed before we lose pace
We need a hint to know we're on the right track"


ok ive thought about this way too much. i love nick drake and i think that jose has hisself a really really good start of making quiet music that impacts.

agreed.

how is that Junip EP? anyone heard it?

his set at SXSW is a free download on itunes from KEXP right now...

I miss the days when he was winning MVPs for the Rangers. Oh, wait...that was Juan. Never mind.

I "saw" him at SXSW but I was kind of bored during his set, probably because I wasn't in the mood for that type of music at that time. I put saw in quotations because I think he was sitting on the floor while he was playing and I couldn't see the stage from where I was. He was better than Annie though.

just saw him yesterday performing in central park during summerstage. unfortunately, the audience was talking throughout his whole set. i totally felt bad for the guy, but you should expect it if all your gonna do is sit on a huge ass stage and perform an outdoor festival to thousands of people. i can see him doing well at pianos or the mercury lounge, his guitar playing is excellent. but sad to say, there was no stage presence and i was in the freaking front trying hard not to be distracted by the camera crew guy playing tetris on his cell phone. sadly that WAS the highlight of his set. there was definitely more enthusiasm for the opener and headliner, seu george.

This is why I left and went to the Solar One show.

Knife version>Gonzalez version