An absorbing new single from London-based act Pocket Jam, “Oublie Le Bruit” marks the soul collective’s first French-language single, highlighting lead vocalist Capucine May’s French heritage. Built around Latin-influenced rhythms and a prominent horn section, the track brings the group’s interest in classic soul traditions into a French-language setting.
Soulful, mellow guitar tones move cohesively into warming horns and a suave rhythm section, with jazzy percussive lushness and a hypnotic bass line driving enjoyably. Capucine May’s enthralling vocal presence follows, maintaining a lovely middle ground between dreamy intrigue and melodic expression as the verses progress. A more constant horn backing appears alongside wordless backing vocal harmonies as the intensity escalates, with the added charisma in the lead vocals and percussive presence also standing out.
Flourishes of majestic strings punctuate this riveting chorus, before shifting back into the debonair verses. The title-touting vocal segment, full of momentum just past the two-minute mark, invigorates into an ardent sequence, where overlapping brass tones consume amidst the grooving rhythms section and free-flowing vocal soulfulness, which takes a backseat here. The final minute dazzles in balancing all these wonderful attributes, from the ravishing vocal layers to the jazzy guitar licks and flourishing symphonic elements. “Oublie Le Bruit” is a thorough success from Pocket Jam.
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This and other tracks featured this month can be streamed on the updating Obscure Sound’s ‘Emerging Singles’ Spotify playlist.
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