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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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I just missed Robert Francis‘ set at the Silverlake Lounge when he played with Pieta Brown last year and since then I hadn’t given the singer songwriter a second thought. That is until I came across his debut album, One by One, for cheap last week and just picked it up ’cause figured I should probably give it a shot sometime. Before I even had a chance to listen to One by One, Jax at Rock Insider plugged his show tonight at Spaceland, which kicked my butt into gear and I put the album on when I went for a run yesterday morning (when I do most of my new music listening), and then subsequently played it on repeat for the rest of the day at the office.
Songs that have got the most repeat listens are “Good Hearted Man”, “Little Girl”, the title track, and “The Devil’s Mountains” that throws a curve ball a little more than halfway through the song when the mariachi trumpet kicks in and the tempo picks up, reminding the listener again that this kid (he was only 19 when he released One by One) has got something special. Francis wrote, produced and played most of the instruments on the ten songs that make up One, something that begins to sound extraordinary as you make your way through the album and think that this should be the work of someone much older and world weary.
MP3: Robert Francis – Little Girl
TONIGHT: Robert Francis w/ Dawes, Romany Rye @ Spaceland (1717 Silverlake Blvd) / 9pm / $8 / 21+