Just when you thought it was fashionable to smoke cigarettes and wear a beret along comes another French musician destined to prove that you have to be born there to be truly cool. Jeffers Waldo – a backwards artistic reference perhaps? - exudes that very cool for the five songs that makes up his EP “Where Is?”
As such things are likely to play out, there is much that has been refrigerated in the music of Jeffers Waldo with a strong element of lounge adding the retro to this somewhat obvious, but nonetheless ear friendly, style fest. You can, without making too much effort, even hear influences from the soundtrack work of Gainsbourg and Legrand in there but all is, fortunately, not merely reverential reinvention with such glorious crudity such as a guitar solo and even the skilful use of the, almost psychedelic, discordance in “Place à L’Amour” indicating that there is more to Jeffers Waldo than merely being an icon for the cool kids.
No doubt about it, Jeffers Waldo has the credibility to be more than just a style icon.