quickly, quickly

For the follow-up to his acclaimed 2021 Ghostly debut, Portland, Oregon, psych-pop songwriter Graham Jonson, aka quickly, quickly, 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. On its lead single, “Enything,” he harmonizes with Julia Logue above bright and jagged guitar lines, playfully rattling through everything he’d do (“for you”).