Local Listening · Jun 15, 01:21 PM
Three local CDs on yesterday….
Kathy Fleischmann band’s newie, which suddenly makes sense as a seventies throwback, though some of those seventies feminists might question certain of her lyrics in an otherwise astutely poetic album that sounds like a raw rock/pop kick back against ponderous prog mediated by guitarist Kevin McLeod’s sometimes Steely Dan tinged chord voicing…
...whereas it’s prog, not the ponderous version, but a lilting folky vaudevillian jazzed vibraluxed guitar sponsored by Reich and Debussy strings vibe that informs Eric Margan and the Red Lions Midnight Book. High end production from the 2” tape recording to the glossy book of lyrics and photographs, worth living with..
...avoiding both 70s and 80s tropes and sonically looking firmly forward with feet in a sixties almost blues sensibility imbued with nostalgic story telling framed by shiny keyboard and weirdly nineties trip-hoppy NYC singer-songwriter musicianship, is Joy Askew’s heartfelt ‘Pirate of Eel Pie’.
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