Thursday, March 8, 2012
Music / Post No Bills Laura Gibson's splendid kitchen-sink folk rock
Posted by Peter Margasak on 03.08.12 at 02:30 PM
In some cases Gibson plays and sings just about everything, but for the tunes where she doesn't she enlisted a large cast to help out, including members of Calexico, the Decemberists, and the Dodos; from track to track the songs inhabit one wonderfully idiosyncratic sound world after another. Gibson is credited with guitar, percussion, pump organ, marimba, vibraphone, piano, and bass. "Lion/Lamb" does a kind of bossa nova/exotica blend, "The Rushing Dark" has an ethereal lullaby vibe enhanced by well-deployed lo-fi techniques, "The Fire" gooses a two-beat white-gospel stomp with tack piano, and "Milk-Heavy, Pollen-Eyed" gets a sweet melancholy partly from gorgeous clarinet and French horn lines. Below you can check out the equally beguiling title track.
Laura Gibson, "La Grande"
photo: Parker Fitzgerald
Today's playlist:
Sherman Irby Quartet, Live at the Otto Club (Black Warrior)
Maisa, Canção do Amor Mais Triste (Som Livre)
Roy Harper, Flat Baroque and Berserk (Science Friction)
Mahmoud Ahmed, Ethiopiques 26: Mahmoud Ahmed & Imperial Bodyguard Band 1972-74 (Buda)
Jan Johansson, 8 Bitar Johansson/Innertrio (Heptagon)
