Perry Hamoud, Jonathan Zarola and Danielle Fricke are a trio from Ontario, Canada, and make the most gentle, unstructured and ungeneric pop music. Their EP "Romance 126", is homemade, and was released in 2012.
It opens with "If You Want To", whirring layers of sound that blend together, dark and light at the same time. "A Clear Mind" sounds like cogs turning in a machine, surges of noise followed by quiet. Danielle Fricke's overlaying harmonies are the rays of light spilling through the window, the percussion used is soft and gentle.
"Leaves" sounds mystical and aerial and it's so dynamic. The whole song is the repetition of one line of lyrics, short and sweet with the instrumental and vocal harmonies wrapping the simple melody up in layers. It's followed with "Trying to be Found", minimalist and pretty with the softest, most haunting backing vocals and strings.
"In The End" sounds like morning dew and cold air, whispering into place, sounding so conclusional and like it captures a moment, a story, that I feel like it has to belong in a film. "Who Will Say Goodbye" is all fuzzy organ and odd click-clacks of percussion, centred around Fricke's beautiful voice.
This EP, as a whole, is cinematic, soft and soothing. You can hear the influence of Sigur Rรณs in them, and their music brings a faintness, an unorderly yet gorgeous arrangement and the same sense of murmured, blurry lyrics that you find in Bon Iver.
"Romance 126" is avaliable on bandcamp now, at "name your price".
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