Description:
Salami Rose Joe Louis – Lorings (2025)
Review:
Ever since Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder label gave Lindsay Olsen, aka Salami Rose Joe Louis, her big break in the late 2010s, she has specialised in subtly trippy ear candy – bloopy electric piano, layered, breathy lyrics, structures that loop and build hypnotically. Lorings delivers a mixture of introspection and surrealism, as the record’s kooky aesthetic belies various moods. That must be hard for you features a pulsing two-note motif, tapping percussion and a caustic satire of people who want to ‘be there’ for someone in a strictly performative way (“That must be so very hard for you / honestly, my heart goes out to you / wish I could help but I’m rather busy / do reach out next time you are in town”). The sound design on ‘Arm Fell Asleep’ is more detailed as slaloming keyboard lines meet watery guitar passages, accompanying Louis’ repetitive vocals about trying to drive with a dead (or sleeping) arm. The tone occasionally becomes melancholy, with Wet Log depicting Louis in the throes of imposter syndrome: a metronomic shaker lining up with its plodding chords, an abrupt conclusion as soon as the hook ends. As Lorings doesn’t have an overarching concept, this produces the effect of some brief venting, feelings that slip away when the next track starts. I Will Never Say’s drums are very playful, an intricate loop where multiple snare hits presage an implausibly loud rimshot, bookended by bouncy kick-drums. The surrounding arrangement is mostly unaffected, though its final section speeds up Louis’ lyrics to match the barrelling tempo. A Pool To Cry In, by contrast, is stark and emotionally potent as cavernous organ notes meet spectral pads, the vocals buried deep in the mix. Sonically vibrant, beguiling and at times defiantly jumbled, Lorings is the sound of an artist doing what she does so well. — musicOMH
Track List:
01 - Inside
02 - Motorway
03 - That must be hard for you
04 - A sauna sized pill
05 - I dunno ways
06 - I will never say
07 - Crow, friendship
08 - Hobbies
09 - Basketball
10 - Arm fell asleep
11 - Fill the void
12 - Upstairs
13 - Wet log
14 - Dribs and drags
15 - A pool to cry in
16 - Farewell
17 - Fill the void ;; house by the lake ;; coda
Media Report:
Genre: dream-pop, electronic
Origin: California, USA 
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
Compression mode: Lossless
Writing library: libFLAC 1.3.0 (UTC 2013-05-26)
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