new music: get lost in the awe-inspiring soundscapes of songwriter and producer joel st. julien #soundcheck

“All the songs sound better in my head” Joel St. Julien sings over deconstructed beats and ambient soundscapes. It’s enough to make you long for a technological era where we have the capability to jack directly into an artist’s brain and hear what he hears, because on my headphones the Every Rise EP sounds pretty damn awe-inspiring as it is.

By Nathan Leigh, AFROPUNK Contributor

The songwriter and producer juggles myriad influences from Radiohead to Autechre to Dirty Projectors, creating songs that surprise and astonish with their depth of sound and texture. The EP’s centerpiece is the existential sorrow of “60 Days.” Over a lopsided beat, Joel St. Julien longs for the simplicity of treehood, “Say you kicked me on fertile ground / Would I become a tree?” World-weariness has never been this thought-provoking or engaging.