quickly, quickly - I Heard That Noise [Mint Green Vinyl LP]

Graham Jonson is drawn to the comforts of melody

and noise. How the two conspire in tension, tonally

and atonally, stirring up memory and mood. This

quality animates the technicolor world of quickly,

quickly, the psych-pop project that emanates from

Kenton Sound, his basement studio in Portland,

Oregon. “Everywhere your eye lands, there’s

another curio to marvel over,” noted Pitchfork’s

Philip Sherburne when he visited Jonson’s

recording space for a Rising feature just after the

release of his “strikingly original” 2021 debut LP, The

Long and Short of It. Since then, Jonson formed a

live band, released his Easy Listening EP in 2023,

and navigated the up-and-downs of a young

musician, the sustainability of tours and

relationships. While shaped by personal bouts and

fallouts, his highly-anticipated full-length follow-up

finds Jonson making music that’s universal,

open-ended, and rewarding, like great songwriters

can do. He set out to make a folk album but

couldn’t help coloring it in with noise; a confluence

of lush instrumentation and unexpected sounds.

Ambitious yet intimate, hi-fi yet homespun, the

idiosyncratic songs on I Heard That Noise curve

around the contours of everyday life with warmth,

wit, and dissonance.