Posts Tagged ‘Cosmic Troubles’

FAITH HEALER – ” Cosmic Troubles “

Posted: November 3, 2016 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Instantly, when I first heard this within the first ten seconds, I was like, “Who is this?” I played the first track on repeat three times. When I hear a song I really like, I have to play it over and over again until I get tired of it.  Sometimes you listen to songs from albums more than I listen to albums all through. Anyway, this band are from Edmonton; they’re a Canadian band. Singer Jessica Jalbert has been around in the Canadian music scene for a really long time, she has this gorgeous voice a super angelic voice. Melodic, melancholic, and calming, I was hooked from the first track. The vocals are pleasantly dreamy, and instrumentation is crisp. Beautiful music.This is a home-recorded album that she did with Renny Wilson , I love all the songs, very nice guitars, and her voice is so careful. It’s very good headphone music,

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FAITH HEALER – ” Canonized / Universe “

Posted: June 16, 2015 in MUSIC
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Jessica Jalbert’s astral, deadpan psychedelia is the style of the best Lou Reed tribute you’ll ever hear. Instead of stripping the Velvet Underground for parts, Jalbert latches onto the weird renderings of tiny details that made that band iconic and coats them in her own reverb, coppery harmonies, and blown-out guitars. That’d be a reason unto itself to listen to “Cosmic Troubles”, but the factor in her incisive, sardonic songwriting . Here’s an uncharted universe of wry, golden fuzz-pop replete with barbed phrases, eyerolls and towering analogue dreaminess.

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Jessica Jalbert makes psychedelia sounds as Faith Healer, and her debut album under that name, Cosmic Troubles, is one of the year’s most cohesive records. Today we’re premiering the video for “Canonized,” a clip that features half of the tight-knit Edmonton music scene holding a Tarot reading and drinking wine spliced with shots of a lone figure trying to start a fire in the Mill Creek Ravine. It includes Caity Fisher (of Tee-Tahs and Caity Fisher & The Wastoids), Ian Waddell (of Diamond Mind), Mitch Holtby (Mitchmatic, Faith Healer), Layne L’Heureux (Maude), Ben Crossman (Ben Disaster, Love Electric, Tee-Tahs), and of course, Jessica Jalbert herself. It was directed by Mike Robertson and you can watch the whole crew’s oddball debauchery unfold below. If you take one thing away from this post, though, I hope it’s the realization that you seriously need to check out the Faith Healer album.

FAITH HEALER – ” Canonized “

Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Jessica Jalbert is the brains behind the Edmonton band Faith Healer, whose music is like a cross section of ’60s psychedelia and lo-fi bedroom recordings. Jalbert’s voice is understated yet bold, and it fits like a glove over tracks that range from Byrds-esque jangles to garage rock freak-outs. On “Canonized,” the newest track from the band’s upcoming “Cosmic Troubles” LP, we get a sampler of the many flavors that Faith Healer is capable of pulling off. It moves flawlessly between an ominous prog-rock verse and a chorus that explodes in fizzy guitars and retro backing vocal “ahs.” The whole thing feels like your acid is kicking in right as the sun cuts through the rain clouds.