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Summer Lawns First We Waited... Then It Started music review
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Summer Lawns First We Waited... Then It Started
Isidore
Isidore Records has hit the jackpot again with Summer Lawns. With their
debut release of First We Waited... Then It Started (Isidore; Stunning
Models
on Display, 2005) this quartet is making more headway than imagined.
They’re
as musically artistic as Radiohead, but sound absolutely nothing like
them.
Ironically, though, they sound similar to their label-mates, The
Elanors,
who do.
Track listing:
01 Piano Song
02 Jack The Ripper
03 Twin Peaks
04 Concrete And Wood
05 This Little Light Of Mine
06 Transmission
07 I Can’t Help It Cause I’m Crying…Dolly’s Dying
08 How To Furnish Life In The Desert
09 Choke
The most comparable trait is lead vocalist and guitarist Jeremy Linzee,
who
is able to conjure up such an empathetic, delicate voice. Everything
else is
entirely unique. Linzee’s voice is as well, but The Elanors’ Noah
Harris
will help to give a better idea. Also part of the New York group is
Matt
Heslinga (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Laurel Birkey (cello, vocals) and
Kieren Kelly (drums).
Their music is profoundly mesmeric, and all the better to provide a
more
mysterious vibe than that of Birkey’s cello. Summer Lawns are alluring
in a
slightly dark way. The music poses from time to time upon it’s notated
haunches, watching, waiting… but the harmonies bring forth an ember to
put
things in a different light, so to speak, keeping anticipation on edge.
It’s much harder to write about a band so graceful, when each track is
beautiful and elegant. Not a beat is missed. But the jewels among the
gemstones in this album are ‘Twin Peaks’, the way of the world through
the
viewpoint of ‘Concrete and Wood’ and of course there’s no looking over
their
rendition of Joy Division’s ‘Transmission’. Within the latter, Linzee
captures the sorrow and vocal isolation with a firm hand… not only a
cover
track, but also a unanimous nod to the band.
An aesthetic to the modern world, Summer Lawns are a respectable dose
of
ambience and honesty. This fall, they have become the subtle secret
that’s
slowly turning into riveting gossip. In no time, you’ll want to be the
first
one to say you discovered the band, and their label for that matter.
Take
the chance now.
