Julie Peel - Near The Sun (2009)

Tracklist

01. Living In A Movie
02. Innocence
03. Sister
04. Unfold
05. The Piece Of My Heart
06. Ok
07. Near The Sun
08. Once More With Feeling
09. In Slow Motion
10. Alone

Julie Peel is a Canadian folk artist I have enjoyed on several tribute compilations for some old favourites of mine. She has done a wonderful version of “A night like this” by the Cure, The Pixies’ “The Happening”, The Breeders’ “Fortunately gone” and “Divine Hammer” and “I believe in you” by Neil Young. Now, she is here again with her own songs, and they are good!
Her music must not be compared by the bands she has covered, – they are from another musical universe. If you like Feist, Sharon Van Etten, Laura Gibson, Jenny Owen Youngs, Amie Mann, Anna Ternheim or the acoustic Lou Barlow, they all have the same kind of “happy-melancholy” inside their songs as Julie Peel has.
Julie Peel’s debut album, “Near the sun”, was released yesterday on American Laundromat Records. It’s full of sweet, warm acoustic pop songs, perfect for the dark and rainy autumn days. Peel has written, recorded and produced the album herself, and she also plays most of the instruments here (vocals, acoustic/electric guitars, bass, piano, ukulele, banjo, glockenspiel, lapsteel, violin keys, melotron, moogs, kazoo, drums programming and tambourine). My favourite on the album is the beautiful title track, where Peel really touches me with her wonderful songwriting. The chorus is intensely beautiful. Also “In slow motion”, where she performs all on her own, is a real gem.

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