harmoniousmonk
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Saw an old pet shop boys concert on Audience the other day
10. Jeff Lescher, “All is Grace” (Kunaki): As the leader of Green, Lescher made a series of extraordinary albums that never made much of a dent beyond a devoted cult following. A decade after Green’s last album, “The Planets,” Lescher returns with his debut solo album, a collection of 20 songs from a career that stretches back to the ‘80s. As with all things Lescher, there are some ramshackle moments, but the high points turn this into a mini-history of the singer’s diverse tastes and influences: the Kinks-like splendor of “Maybe Someday,” the glam stomp of “Can’t Do it Without You,” the country-soul of “You Make Life Sweet,” the wan, almost desperate optimism of the staggering, densely orchestrated “I Might Shine Again.”
Last show of the year tonight - Circles Around the Sun featuring Scott Metzgar (JRAD) on guitar. Wish it were Neal; hate that he felt there was no other way.
Across the last 30 years, Bejar has hoovered the poetry of Baudelaire, Langston Hughes, and Jim Carroll; the entire catalogs of mercurial icons like Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison; and the arthouse films of Jean Renoir, Wim Wenders, and François Truffaut. Given such heady source material, it’s unsurprising that his impressionistic lyricism has left some people a bit perplexed. Even Laura Ballance, co-founder of Merge Records, the label that’s put out seven Destroyer albums over the last 18 years, diplomatically admits, “It is always clear to me that he uses a lot of words, but it’s difficult to figure out what he’s talking about.”