Ethereal city folk, that's how I like to think of the next group, Lean Year. This mob keeps it on the quiet side, but their quiet is definitely powerful. Intricately-worked and beautifully nuanced, magic is definitely in the air with "Come and See."
Like their name suggests, Lean Year doesn’t come with any frills. And you won’t need them, given how thoughtful their new single, “Come and See” feels. It will appear on their eponymous record,
This is the epitome of beautiful simplicity.
With his filmmaker background at the forefront, Rick Alverson crafts a languid yet stunning soundscape. Its melody is light and delicate, akin to a lullaby but one that is rapturous and intoxicating. Singer Emilie Rex’s angelic voice is the stuff of memories, floating effortlessly within Alverson’s dreamscape. But her story isn’t one meant for little ones, as she elegantly tells the old world to fuck off. This may be the most hushed and gorgeous political song one will hear.
Fuck off the old world is a motto i can agree with and say over and over again.....
Rex and Alverson co-wrote the album over the course of a year at their home in Richmond, VA and recorded it in three sessions at the home studio of Chicago musician/engineer Erik Hall (In Tall Buildings, NOMO), who also performs on the record. Alverson and Hall co-produced the album’s ten tracks, drawing on both Hall's and Elliot Bergman’s (NOMO) arsenal of instruments. For Hall and Rex, this project was a reunion of sorts, the two having met as undergraduates in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan over a decade before. Hall’s extensive vocabulary—ranging from jazz and pop to rock and afrobeat—informs his contributions to the record.
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