Most opening act performances are easy to forget, at least that’s how I feel. An exception: Nicholas Krgovich in the opening act for Destroyer 2017 in Munich. How the Canadian sat there all alone at the keyboard, sang his tender songs and in between talked about an old church in which he had just had a kind of awakening experience stuck in my mind. Krgovich had already made a couple of very good records, none of which caught on, and the following year the break-up album OUCH came out: A “sophisticated pop masterpiece”, as our reviewer wrote at the time.
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The sensitivity, the fine observation has remained, but AT SCARAMOUCHE, the songwriter’s second collaboration with multi-instrumentalist Joseph Shabason, is even more about the everyday. Give the dog water, redecorate the house, drive through the place of childhood and find that the McDonald’s from before is gone. A bit like a pop Robert Walser, Nicholas Krgovich tells of the little things in life, which of course always mean more than the obvious.
“Taking the back lane behind Noni and Papa’s old place, the hedge the same but the house changed,” it says once to a warm keyboard sound and a whispering jazz trumpet. The songs have a loving melancholy and comedy in them. And once you’ve listened to them a few times, you just want to fall into this mixture of cloudy synths, funky guitars and subtle R’n’B soft pop.
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