Shampoo & Champagne

The only thing resembling ‘proper’ on Shampoo & Champagne is an acoustic guitar. Essentially, it’s a folk-pop album with quasi-chamber aspirations, but instead of strings and reeds, we get flatulent synths, melodica, and inside-out samples. The party responsible for the subversive palette is Sweden’s Erik Jeor, and Balroynigress is his bastardized solo project. Although Bill van Cutten (which is a totally rad anagramized pseudonym for Vincent Bullat) provides lyrics and some instrumentation along the fringes of a few of the songs, and Elvire Soyez adds vocals on three tracks, everything else is Jeor. With good reason, too. In a couple years, the man could be skirting unqualified genius.