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Approved: Jacco Gardner

By | Published on Monday 13 May 2013

Jacco Gardner

One of a pool of artists (Temples, Charlie Boyer And The Voyeurs, Foxygen) having a go at rephrasing 1960s pop in time for its half-centenary, Holland’s Jacco Gardner plays every single instrumental part on his first LP ‘Cabinet Of Curiosities’, a hoard of frail, pallid psych ephemera that had its British release back in Feb.

Like Jacco’s occasional top hat, velvet cravat, and Brian Jones-style silky bob, ‘Cabinet’ is a pretty if barefaced ingratiation to the legacies of, say, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd or the early Stones (this mainly via its title track, which is like a voiceless ‘She’s A Rainbow’ with added dolls-coming-alive noises). But, it just saves itself from, say, Foxygen’s OTT foppery by keeping a shy, quiet lid on tracks, like the wide-eyed and wending ‘Chameleon’, giddy chamber waltz ‘Watching The Moon’, and the charmingly sappy ‘Help Me Out’.

Hear that latter track as it is on ‘Cabinet’ now, or listen in live when Jacco plays this year’s Great Escape (and eight headline shows in June).



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