Romy Madley Croft's doleful guitars were always destined to be paired off with something substantially more soulful than the stuff of
xx thus when their lugubrious grandeur was draped over the gravelly majesty of Gil Scott-Heron's
I'm New Here by her monochrome cohort Jamie Smith, slats clacked right into place like a reconstructed Ikea movable. Channeling a similar aesthetic is Bern's Fabio Friedli, or
Pablo Nouvelle: perhaps the best thing to come out of the Swiss Confederation since it first oozed broiling gruyère, You Do Me Wrong is a sultry wonder. Revolving around a repeated lyrical refrain sampled from Marvin Gaye's Ain't That Peculiar, dusty guitars glide through particles of warm static as though skiers carving their way through thoroughly treacherous blizzard to arrive at an effect that rivals Groove Armada's finest in gradually unravelled emotivity. A budding filmmaker also, there's an outwardly cinematic quality to Nouvelle's sound and indeed to Be True To Me: he this time picks on The Cinematic Orchestra's
Patrick Watson-featuring To Build A Home, refurbishing the original as a slow-burning, cinder-coated maelstrom of beguiling enticement. Dip in below...
Pablo Nouvelle's Soundcloud.
