The former grunge rocker shows his more soulful side with a new release filled with beautifully restrained electronica and sticky falsetto
Upon the January release of song Aerial Love, Daniel Johns’s first new music in eight years, I read the reviews and couldn’t quite believe them.
“It’s a soft and slow, soulful ballad,” wrote Guardian Australia’s Monica Tan, “that sees Johns alternate between a sultry croon and a nicely controlled falsetto over a throbbing drum beat.” Here and elsewhere the man – who at the age of 15 had his first major hit with 90s grunge chart stalwarts Silverchair and was once cruelly dubbed “Nirvana in pyjamas” – was now being compared to the smoky R&B chug of Melbourne’s Chet Faker. Like I said, I didn’t quite believe it.
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by Everett True via Electronic music | The Guardian
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