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While night walks are not necessarily nude walks, night walks have sometimes been a forbidden activity in lockdown. Because it’s true: you can get stupid ideas while walking at night. But you can also clear your head.
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Tempers lyricist and singer Jasmine Golestaneh takes us on such an ambivalent night trip in the opener “Nightwalking”, we swim with her in the stars, as she puts it, in-the-sky-with-diamonds-like, and it sounds like beach house with (more) kick drums, ergo: like the young Depeche Mode if they had had a female singer. These songs inhale and exhale so much dark 80ies that it sniffs at an XXL can of hairspray.
The beat drives, the voice echoes melodically with the synths (driven by Eddie Cooper), flanked by warm, benevolent guitar riffs. “Sightseeing” feels like a nightside homage to Eurythmics’ “Here Comes The Rain Again”. With “In And Out Of Hand” Jasmine Golestaneh even left her cell phone at home during the night walk, as she reveals to us, and vocally she really freaks out about it.
NEW MEANING, the New York duo’s self-produced fourth record, is music for quarantine werewolves, isolation vampires and other fans of the darker times of the day. Great for the club or the home-then-no-longer-office club or the Walkman on a walk at the end of the night.
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