All Anew: “Beginning Everyday” by @Naommon

NAOMMON, Beginning Everyday (EP)

“Beginning Everyday” is the fresh start you need to hear as the summer months approach.  It’s one of those songs you want to hear on a beautiful sunny morning, even though you’ll know that there is a serious undercurrent to it.  Its singer, Naommon, hails from France but is based out of London.  He’s got a fine, restrained voice that shows off a lovely timbre on “Beginning Everyday”.  Think of Sweden’s Darin with a slightly deeper voice, and a somewhat minimal sound that would go hand-in-hand with fellow French dance artist The Aikiu, who I wrote about not long ago.  “Beginning Everyday”  (video below) is a pleasant alterna-pop record that might just need an edit for radio play, being a little long at close to 5:00.  Also included in its EP are five remixes.  Australia’s Parralox comes off best, giving a gracious house-lite flavour to the song.  The other remixes succeed in not blowing the song up into a dance anthem and capture its subtle qualities quite nicely.  Beginning Everyday is available on iTunes.  You might also check out Naommon’s cover of Blur’s “Girls And Boys” (also below), which trades in-yer-face middle-finger-salute sarcasm of the original and replaces it with a droll and contemporary disco cabaret rendition.