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This is an album that, for me, pre-dates my arrival in China and my true eye-opening to the world of Chinese indie music. I found this over at Music Envy on Livejournal, when I finally insisted to myself that there had to be something other than the Canto– and Mandopop that had invaded my ears when it came to Chinese music for my entire life. What immediately endeared me to The Life Journey, however, is their cuteness. I’m not sure I should really be using the word “cute” to describe a rag-tag group of indie rock dudes, but the vocalist’s voice is just so lilting, and their music so… adorable, that I just want to pour them a cup of tea on chipped china in mismatched teacups and put them on lace doilies. Which doesn’t mean I think my gran would like them, but that they remind me of the sort of indie music you get with grandpa glasses and oversized gray cardigans.
To put their music in more solid terms, they are a lo-fi indie band that sings in three languages: Chinese, English, and French. There’s five of them, rounding out the indie rock staple three-piece with two guitars and a keyboardist/synth player, the latter of which is definitely the key to their music. It reminds me of retro French 60s/70s pop music; not that I have a lot of experience with this genre, but there’s something about psychedelic pop stylings on a lo-fi Chinese band that sings in French and English with the cutest accents that makes me think that this is what it would be like. They’re not the shoe-gazing sort of lo-fi band I’ve usually come to associate with the sound, but they have a mature feel to them — even if the overall feeling is a little childlike.
It’s definitely relaxing music, with quiet and meandering tracks like “My Desert” and “Panda”, even though I would describe most of it as bubbly, irreverent indie pop. My absolute favorite song off the album, which I have held for a long time, is “回到巴巴拉拉的城堡” (huí dào bābālālā de chéng bǎo/“Back to Castle Babalala”), but as I’ve been listening to it more, “全世界都在水里游” (quán shìjiè doū zài shuǐ lǐ yóu/“The World is Swimming”) is growing on me, not only for its catchy “带我走” refrain but the fact that it has the same watery quality that you can hear but can’t explain when you play a water level on a video game. “中央公园” (zhōng yāng gōng yuán/“Central Park”) is also another favorite; the sort of song that makes you feel like taking a walk in the park — appropriately.
I think the best part of this album is its ability to express a particular feeling very vividly. I’m aware that not everyone is going to hear the album and want to serve tea in chipped china on doilies, or hear the soundtrack to a respite in a French café, or feel like going for a walk in the park, but I’m pretty sure that everyone will be able to get something visceral from these songs. Everything in the music of these songs comes together seamlessly to express something absolutely charming, and the only way to experience it is to listen to it. Check out the Music page and listen to the track I’ve put up. Let me know if you can just see the grandpa glasses and oversized gray cardigans.
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