“Shotgun” is an early highlight, with a booming instrumental that’s rounded out by deep brass and soaring strings. Fortunately, the record succeeds more often than not, thanks to Gallant’s buttery vocals and immense production, largely provided by STiNT. His debut record is now out a little less than a year later, but the concern with Ology was whether Gallant’s penchant for soul-searching tragedy would grow grating or gimmicky over a full-length LP. “Weight in Gold” premiered last June via Zane Lowe and 4.7 million SoundCloud streams later the world was suddenly exposed to his emotional, gripping brand of high-stakes soul. based label home to a roster of enigmatic indie R&B acts including THEY. The mercurial singer’s sudden rise came thanks to his affiliation with electronic producer ZHU and the mysterious Mind of a Genius Records, an L.A. It’s the kind of single that could potentially herald the coming of a truly special talent. The song is a glittering, operatic R&B ballad that thrives by contrasting its minimalist verses with a tidal wave of a chorus. Because nothing gold can stay, and this is certainly gold.Gallant’s “Weight in Gold” is one of the more stunning breakthrough singles to come out in recent memory, but it also seemed somewhat unsustainable. In a stroke of genius, the album concludes abruptly-like so many important moments do-with the sound of a vibrating phone. The energy and heart permeating it is contagious. Children of the ’90s, with The Lion King and There Is Nothing Left to Lose in their blood, are now in their mid-twenties and putting out work like this. Gallant has carefully studied everything the world’s thrown at him in his brief number of years. Ology is for anyone who’s put at least a couple of decades in, and the titular suffix speaks to that universal relatability.
Indeed, it’s soaring, orchestral, and cinematic, with French horns that don’t seem out of place at all.
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“Chandra,” the album’s final full song, is, according to Gallant’s Twitter, “a isney song” about taking too much Tylenol. “ Skipping Stones ” finds Gallant trading vocal runs with the equally smooth Jhené Aiko. On “Bone + Tissue,” he sings about “spending all your days making days feel shorter.” “Tell me I’m a monument to more than bone and tissue,” he implores.Īs promised, there’s no genre to fit this neatly into. Love comes up, as it tends to, but Ology is ultimately Gallant trying to find himself rather than someone else.
The record has the intimate feel of a D’Angelo album, but the sex and romance are largely gone. If you know anything about him, it’s that vocally, Gallant is virtually untouchable.
“Weight in Gold,” a 2015 single, caught the attention of Sufjan Stevens and Seal for a reason. “First”/“Talking to Myself” is one of the best album openers in recent memory. Ology, twenty-four-year-old Gallant’s debut LP, makes the wait for Frank Ocean’s new album much easier to take. His version of the Foo Fighters’ “Learn to Fly” is enough to make the original’s famously goofy video cover its face in shame. Gallant’s influences are not more “this” and less “that.” He knows and loves alt-rock alongside R&B. Christopher Gallant relocated from New York to LA after being told his music was too weird -in order to sell it, he’d have to make it more “this” and less “that.” In response, he self-released an EP, 2014’s Zebra.
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