Most Valuable Player, by Nat Baldwin (CD on Broken Sparrow)

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Outstanding new album from Nat Baldwin (last heard here on an Orange advert late 2006, and with a great full length early 2007); Most Valuable Player is the new solo album from the ex-Dirty Projector. Produced by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor, it's been called "one of the finest albums this year will see" by Said the Gramophone. A double bass-wielding instrumentalist and haunting vocalist, Nat Baldwin starts Most Valuable Player with the haunting composition “Lake Eriethat sees the 28-year-old at his most confident and emotive. Likened to a contemporary Arthur Russell, Baldwin recorded the album under the masterful hand of Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor and with help from the Dirty Projector’s melismatic maestro Dave Longstreth.The album’s title is a nod to Baldwin’s days as a Northeast high school basketball champion who turned down scholarships offers to instead pursue jazz. Baldwin studied under free jazz legend Anthony Braxton, an influence evident on unbridled tracks such as “Look She Said, and helps demonstrates the breadth of Baldwin’s capabilities, with songs ranging from the full and anthemic “Mask I Wearto the sparse and melodic “One Two Three.

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