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Urbantramper: To the Future on Foot

Recording vocals and instruments in his bedroom, messing with them on the computer, and with a little mastering work at the Victoria University school of music, Thomas Jaunism has made an idiosyncratic, pretty piece of folk, selling for under $15. Say what you will of a lot of what comes from boy musicians in bedrooms on computers, but the melancholic songcraft here is the cream of what this experimentation makes possible. Electronica haunts it in beats, loops, keyboards and the odd sample, but the album is carried by old-fashioned voice and guitar. Drenched in a winter Wellingtonia of damp flats and drizzle, the songs are sometimes eerie, sometimes sweet, and now and then take off into dreamy, hypnotic territory. It may also have the only samples you'll ever hear of Jenny Shipley's Code of Social and Family Responsibility (the track's called BULLSHIT) Sales through urbantramper@linuxmail.org.

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