The Lightning Bug Situation – Call (Independent)
An album about, and I quote, ‘Love, adulthood and relationships’. We get one guy’s view of this, as The LBS is a chap called Brian Miller, although there are four other people helping out at times with French horn, cello, electric bass and voice / xylophone. Well, despite this, it is certainly ‘his’ album. If you want a category, then very thoughtful dreamscape might cover it. If you want to know how good it is, then I shall say “awesome!”

I have borrowed half a term used on the press-sheet, which was made by Kyp Malone (TV On The Radio) with regard to his previous album, released back in 2007. If I tell that the word I omitted is a serious expletive then you can work it out for yourself without me having to put it in print. (You calling me a chicken, you putz? Yeah, maybe I am, but it is a word I already use way too much, so I try not to swear in print).

It is a fitting term for this sophomore album as well, though. It has a simple beauty that hugs every song, wrapping each of them up in an atmosphere of, well, think of the most gorgeous day you have had so far this year, and that’s it. For me that would be beachcombing on the golden sand of a Brittany beach, with perfect blue sky, hardly a human being in sight, plenty of birdlife, and on a Monday morning in the middle of September. Almost an unbeatable moment, and this album would have made a great soundtrack to it.
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