{"id":3238,"date":"2015-04-06T08:36:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T12:36:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=3238"},"modified":"2015-04-20T12:51:42","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:51:42","slug":"faith-healer-cosmic-troubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/faith-healer-cosmic-troubles\/","title":{"rendered":"Faith Healer <br>Cosmic Troubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/faith_healer-cosmic_troubles.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3239\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/faith_healer-cosmic_troubles.jpg\" alt=\"Faith Healer, Cosmic Troubles\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/faith_healer-cosmic_troubles.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/faith_healer-cosmic_troubles-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Jessica Jalbert is a sorceress, but you shouldn&#8217;t feel out of the loop if you&#8217;ve never heard the name. Doing a little research, one finds that Jalbert released an overlooked gem, <i>Brother Loyola<\/i>, under her own name some years back. It&#8217;s full of heartfelt folk sprung from the imagination of an artist confined to a remote, yet deeply beautiful part of the world, Edmonton, Alberta. But such isolation truly defines Faith Healer, her latest project with friend Renny Wilson.<\/p>\n<p><i>Cosmic Troubles<\/i> (Mint Records) is an album of lazily spun modernism, weighted in timeless influences and prismatic space. The first thing you&#8217;ll notice is the effervescence of the lead single &#8220;Again,&#8221; with its kaleidoscopic psych-lite as played on guitars plucked as if lifted from Fairport Convention tablature or Lilys records from the mid-90s. It&#8217;s a rummage, but it all seems to fall in place magically. Meanwhile, Jalbert sing-speaks as a Nico-esque chanteuse. The opener, &#8220;Acid,&#8221; is &#8220;Sweet Jane&#8221; were it conceived in a smoke-filled candy store, and the title track could be &#8220;All Tomorrow&#8217;s Parties&#8221; had Os Mutantes written it first.<\/p>\n<p>Neither space-aged nor Spiritualized, Faith Healer, despite the ill-conceived name (there&#8217;s of of course the &#8217;90s band from Britain, Th\u2019 Faith Healers), inhabits &#8217;70s soft-rock with enough tentacles to show Jalbert has musical depth and her fingers on a little bit of everything in the room. &#8220;No Car,&#8221; the very next track, simmers in farfisa flashbacks and girl-group grunge imbued with a flippancy that doesn&#8217;t get in the way. Though not everything here is triumphant, there are certainly enough sonic diversions spliced throughout that one gets the impression Jalbert was wide-eyed in the studio, which allows <i>Cosmic Troubles<\/i> an unpredictability that belies its general sameness at times. 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