Loren Kramar // Glovemaker LP [COLOR]

アメリカ・LAのシンガーソングライターLoren Kramarが、2024年4月に同国インディーレーベルSecretly Canadianからリリースしたデビューレコードです。

どこか懐かしさを感じるインディーポップ〜ネオカントリー11曲を収録。ダークレッド盤です。

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12" red vinyl.

Tracklist:

1. Hollywood Blvd 04:55
2. Euphemism
3. I'm a Slut
4. Like a Lover
5. Gay Angels
6. Glovemaker
7. Birthday Thursday
8. Whatever Happens
9. 15 Years
10. Oh To Be
11. No Man

Text excerpt by Secretly Canadian:

"... While Loren has the muscular might of a bona fide balladeer like Jacques Brel or Jeff Buckley, his strength also comes from his ability to weave together an ensemble of tremendous musicians. Produced and mixed by Sean O’Brien (The National, Booker T Jones), Glovemaker has bottled the fragile chemistry of some of the best musicians in Los Angeles. These records are alive - the evidence of what occurs when attentive artists play alongside one another in the same room. Carla Azar and Sam KS play drums while experimental jazz wizard, Sam Gendel, plays the sax. The string arrangements are written and conducted by Drew Erickson, who is a frequent collaborator of Father John Misty and Mitski. John Carroll Kirby plays the highly seductive synths. There are bells, trumpets, tap dancing, a kazoo, the cacophony hovering somewhere between a disco and a church.

This is a songwriter’s album. Loren’s lyrics are all his, and you feel it with every bright, Maraschino-cherry-like word that falls from his lips. “Like a lover, You scream and I shatter, I hit like a hammer,” Loren sings. And we get to feel what Loren feels. We live in his brain, riding his genre bending emotions, on a wave of modern pop. And the songs lift, they are anthems of belief, “Hollywood Blvd,” “I’m a Slut,” “Euphemism,” “Gay Angels,” are all odes to triumphing over the corroding powers of fear and doubt. And on this ride, Loren’s voice is the guard rail, ever eager to stretch and transform, belting, talk-singing, multiplying, keeping us safe.

Glovemaker slaps and soars. The album is an ecstatic overture to love and loneliness, to dreams and promises, to everything Los Angeles dangles. Buckle up. Loren knows how to craft space, how to move us through darkened bars, strobing arenas, beige carpeted bungalows and yellow lit highways. How do you like LA? Loren asks. I hope you love it."

Artist : Loren Kramar

Label : Secretly Canadian

CAT No: SC484lp-C1