![]() There are some great story songs, too-little short stories, such as “The Ballad of Orely Burwash and Salisbury Jenkins”-that conjure Chesnutt’s storytelling style. Lloyd Brown’s voice, which sounds so much like Gano’s at times, makes listening a joy. He comes across more clearly than Beck because he’ll simply query what it means to be, and how one lives a good and right life. On this full-length, Automatic, bringing together a couple different EPs, Stacy Lloyd Brown has an imagination for the strange collage of scenes and feelings produced by the world. Think of Beck on K Records (One Foot in the Grave), Vic Chesnutt, Gord Gano (of Violent Femmes) or Chad VanGaalen. ![]() ![]() This is how a lot of great artists sound when making their start: by turns bizarre and untidy, earnest and direct, down home and downtown and somehow seamless in sewing it all up into a single sound. ![]()
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