Julia Bardo - Phase - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Julia Bardo - Bauhaus, L'Appartamento [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/26/2024

Bauhaus, L'Appartamento, produced and mixed by Younghusband's Euan Hinshelwood, firmly establishes Bardo's musical adventurousness and prowess, and marks a cathartic and self-affirming moment for an artist who found her voice by realizing it's been there all along. Each track on the album opens a new door. In the resonant and memorable opener InchThe Most,Inch Bardo is bold in her declaration of romance and devotion. The twinkling, gauzy guitars of InchDo This To MeInch find Bardo world-weary and desperate for resolution. The off-kilter distortion of InchImpossibleInch and it's spoken word in her native tongue see Bardo's Italian roots become entwined with the '90s American artists whose music continues to inspire her. She raises awareness for the importance of mental health with last year's single InchIt's Okay (To Not Be Okay)Inch. The album is best summed up by the woman who wrote it all InchBauhaus, L'Appartamento is about loneliness, solitude, separation... but also unconditional love,Inch Bardo reveals of the record's overarching themes. InchFamily, emotional dependency, mental health issues, feelings of emptiness and numbness, feelings of not being enough, inability to be in control of my own emotions, self-doubt, self-reflection, past traumas and dealing with them.Inch01 The Most 02 No Feeling 03 Into Your Eyes 04 Love Out Of Control 05 The One 06 Do This To Me 07 Impossible 08 It's Okay (To Not Be Okay) 09 The Greatest 10 Goodbye Tomorrow

Zorked (adj.) - what happens when you end up thunderbaked, as in extremely stoned-or in any situation where you feel not sober. You can feel so tired you're zorked. In fact, any state, so long as you're a little out of it, qualies. And Julia Shapiro, of Chastity Belt, Childbirth, and Who Is She?-much like everyone on this earth with a pulse-was zorked on more than one occasion in 2020. In March, she packed up her things and traded Seattle's late-winter gloom for the perennial sunshine and seemingly endless opportunity of Los Angeles only to be forced into near-total isolation. With nowhere to go and nothing to do, she began working on her second solo album, Zorked. On the resulting batch of songs, we're given Julia's vision of Los Angeles a wasteland melting in slow-motion, a place to commune with ghosts and warped legacies. Living within earshot of a man who spent his entire 2020 singing karaoke for over 10 hours a day, Julia could write, record, and play an album's worth of instruments without fear of noise complaints. Her roommate Melina Duterte (Jay Som) transformed their house into a viable home studio, making it easy to fully realize the sound in her head, even at the height of a global lockdown. Taking things a step further, Melina agreed to co-produce the record, pushing Julia to make these new songs sound less like Perfect Version, her rst solo album, or like the songs she performs in Chastity Belt. At the peak of her uncertainty and discomfort, she jumped into the deep end in search of something new-and found power in heavy sounds. This is evident in the rst few seconds of album opener InchDeath (XIII).Inch Taking newfound inspiration from the namesake Tarot card, drone metal, and shoegaze, Julia layers walls of guitars, bass chords, and programmed drums. InchCome With Me,Inch the album's lead single, takes inspiration from a mushroom trip gone bad. InchTak