One falls hard for "Slipping," a whopping track of æ60s psychedelia, æ90s space rock, and æ80s shoegaze's catchy, cooing vocals and billowing textures. One gets lost in its booming tom toms, flashing Ride guitars, choral backing vocals, and crescendoing feedback leads. There're tantalizingly similar snatches elsewhere on Lannon's analog-mixed second LP (following 2004's scenes from a breakup Chemical Friends, as N. Lannon), but the singer/songwriter's heart is more often in Elliott Smith-worshipping acoust...   [ read more ]

CD $12.33

Nyles Lannon's work with San Francisco slowcore proponents Film School suggests that the guitarist and singer understands his Low and Bedhead. His first excursion (as n.Ln) into electronica, 2003's Astronomy for Children, indicated that he already had a firm grasp of the Fnxa and Fennesz songbooks. His new release, Chemical Friends, sounds like he's been boning up on the Elliott Smith, Simon & Garfunkel, and Nick Drake, too. The result of all this study is a conflu...   [ read more ]

CD $12.33

Known mostly as guitarist/vocalist in the current San Francisco buzz band Film School, musician Nyles Lannon is also active on many other musical fronts. With the recent release of his electronic record n.ln Astronomy for Children (BBC Album of the Week) he completed an extensive European tour and is set to release another n.ln record with Bjork collaborator Thomas Knak. And now we find Lannon changing gears once again, moving this time to the realm of acoustic/electronic ambient pop with the release of n....   [ read more ]

MP3 $10.49

Other people also bought:

Captain Beefheart & his Magic Band  Grow Fins Vol. II: Trout Mask House Sessions, Magas  Bad Blood, Low  Songs for a Dead Pilot (reissue)