This new studio LP from the band project of Canadian singer-songwriter and solo artist Andy Shauf from Regina, Saskatchewan, is a charming, warm, experimental indie-rock and chamber-pop release that collages snippets of dialogue and music from old movies, between and within songs. There’s a romance and gentle amusement to numbers that intersperse with, and reflect moments of fond farewell such as 1947’s Life With Father on Sleeping, which interestingly mixes a breakbeat with the swirl and swell of atmospheric, nostalgic, cinematic orchestral strings. Sometimes song lyrics also echo and reflect phrases of dialogue. The first Foxwarren release for seven years, the rest of the band are Dallas Bryson, Avery Kissick, Darryl Kissick, Colin Nealis, with gentle percussion, piano, guitars, flutes and more, fronted by Shauf’s delicate, high voice. Clips and music make for an entertaining juxtaposition. “We’ll have something really wonderful together” we hear the actress tenderly say at the beginning of Say It which also has a summons sense of foreboding as well as tendernes. “Listen to me I say!" says the actor with serious urgency at the beginning of another stomping standout, Listen2Me, in which Shauf also wittily sings “I know I’m not some movie star … but I might be able to tell you something over fuzz guitars and more. QuiteALot is another mix of sampled excerpts before the rolling drums, bass and fluttering flutes of the beautiful Strange. Yvonne is a lovely lilting love song accompanied by the sound of birds on a beach. Havana is more classic clips, but another standout song is Deadhead, its introduction has a comedy horror flavour before a track that’s catchy, dancey quirky indie with an intricate, infectious guitar riff. An album for movie buffs as much as music fans, this is classy, clever, eclectic, subtle and catchy body release. Raise the curtain and roll! Out on ANTI- Records.
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