What their label says...
1. Your Biggest Fan
2. Simone
3. Starbelly (slow)
4. Sidewalker
5. Good (bye)
6. The World Is Not Against You
7. I Love Stevie Nicks
8. Starbelly (fast)
9. Munich
10. Tower Song
11. Animal Shelter
Another work of wonder from NYC's greatest living anti-folker (and no - that doesn't mean he is literally 'anti' folk...). The third album from our favourite lo-fi electric-folk poet is a cracker. Insightful, witty lyrics. Melodies catchier than a cold in a Scottish winter. And that indescribable, characterful voice!!
Tower Song is a knowing, world-weary paean to the pain of the minimum wage record store clerk “My stomach is starting to shrink / I wash my socks in the sink”; “I cannot afford you flowers / On 5 dollars an hour”...
The World Is Not Against You sympathizes with the squirrels in New York City, looking down on all the nuts below.
Animal Shelter is a brilliant, driving acoustic fantasia. Fleeting glances at beautiful strangers on trains. Daydreams about worlds where all animals - including pets - run free.
Genius.
