Ray LaMontagne

It's Friday, so it is time for some music... The snippet of a review below is by AMG:

If it weren't for his singing voice, so full of smoke and ether, one would be hard-pressed to believe that Till the Sun Turns Black was made by the same man who recorded Trouble just two years prior to it. Ray LaMontagne takes a brave leap... Whole comparisons to Nick Drake will be forthcoming, no doubt, but it's only really accurate when thinking of Drake in his work with John Cale, who fully and implicitly understood the singer's intent. Check LaMontagne's opener, "Be Here Now," with the guitar finding its way toward the singer as a quartet of violins, two cellos, and a bowed bass emerge to support his voice in the void of silence Johns creates around it. Johns' piano fills in odd spaces. They don't seem to add up, but they do when LaMontagne's vocal whispers its way forward into that small swell of shadow..."

Download and listen to the phenomenally lush and indescribably wonderful, Be Here Now...



But why limit your listening pleasure to one song no matter how fine it is? Buy the entire CD, Till The Sun Turns Black here.
-- David M Gordon / The Deipnosophist