When Neko Case toured in support of 2006's Fox Confessor Brings the Flood, she claimed that she didn't like love songs, and that she was incapable of writing one.
Jazz pianist Cyrus Chestnut and pop icon Elvis Presley aren't a likely pairing: Chestnut is one of the top pianists of a generation born many years after songs like "Love Me Tender, " "Hound Dog" and "Don't Be Cruel" made Presley the king of rock 'n' roll.
"The Whole Love" seems like a celebration of that freedom, with songs that roam happily all over the place: "Capitol City" is a country waltz with bits of Dixieland clarinet, "Sunloathe" sounds like the Beatles if they were still together in 1974, and the vaguely psychedelic folk-pop title track takes Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge down to the Small Faces' Itchycoo Park for a summer-breezin' picnic.
Though Fedofsky's music sounds like easy, breezy retro-pop, he sometimes incorporates strange, otherworldly lyrics into his songs instead of singing only about more conventional topics like love and heartache.
' With these songs, I feel like the old-school folks who love traditional music are going to love this, but it's also cool enough, and topically challenging enough, that young people are going to dig it, too.
Huge metallic claws resting on uplit pedestals compete for attention against giant inflatable rats singing love songs to each other and a boardwalk twisted into rollercoaster-like hoops by a pallet truck.
His feelings for his parents also emerge in songs like "123 Goodbye, " which includes the line "I love you more in death than I ever could in life, " though Perkins prefers to sing about these thoughts rather than talk about them.
With his band Red House Painters, he took things like "Long Distance Runaround" by Yes and Paul McCartney's "Silly Love Songs, " slowed them way down and gave them entirely new emotional meaning, which to me is the mark of a truly great cover version.
With track titles like "29 Acts of Love, " "Lovers In The Bathroom, " and "Love Songs, " it's clear the Los Angeles-based trio Gliss concerns itself largely with matters of the heart.
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