NEW YORK MUSIC DAILY: Elegant, Serpentine Chamber Pop with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn
NEW YORK MUSIC DAILY: Elegant, Serpentine Chamber Pop with the String Orchestra of Brooklyn
by delarue
"The New York premiere of William Brittelle‘s labyrinthine, surprise-packed, intricately dynamic mini-suite Canyons Curved Burgundy, was sung with moody resonance by Wye Oak guitarist Jenn Wasner, a frequent Brittelle collaborator. At the end, she went to her knees to elegantly tremolo-pick upper-register chords that were more raindroplets than dreampop washes. Her fellow guitarist Aaron Roche sang falsetto, off mic most of the time, so his harmonies often weren’t very present in the mix. Of his works on the bill, the most memorable was the slowly swaying, pensively 70s Britfolk-tinged Wooden Knife."