Minor Alps
Get There

As far as I know, Minor Alps was born as a collaboration between two musicians I had never heard of before. The fact is, they recorded this Get There and something I didn't expect. It has played hundreds of times through the speakers here, and it took me about a year to recognize all the tracks (a year of who are these again?): disconnected, held together only by the vocal lines, some not very relevant, but certainly nothing unlistenable.

The mix is definitely dedicated to atmosphere, searching for welcoming and warm sounds, and when it works, it works: like the minimal acoustic approaches of Radio Static, or the small and dry sleet that closes the album, Away Again, with a jingle-like chorus.

Every now and then, the I don't know what to do with my hands of the moment pops up, a random track from a random indie woman group, like the Dum Dum Girls. For heaven's sake, I don't know what to do with it sometimes either, but it's a bit too rhetorically carefree for my taste. This album is a pocket. Sometimes it's useful, sometimes it doesn't matter if it's there or not. A pocket.