Basket Star

On Basket Star, the well-traveled New York songwriter and studio savant Adir L.C. epitomizes a new breed of troubadour: one who not only writes songs as he passes through but arranges and records them on the move as well. He assembled the record like a postmodern folk Bard, collecting and orchestrating tracks, sounds, and creative contributions to share on his way. A savvy folk-pop craftsman with a track record, Adir coaxed Basket Star to life as he moved from one ad-hoc studio to another: Brooklyn apartments and practice spaces, an aunt"s house in Vermont, a studio outside Binghamton, New York, and more. Adir"s baseline sound is a heady blend of millennial indie: a freak folk earthiness meets the big-din symphonics of "collective pop," with accents of tin pan alley, jangle, soul, and street corner brass band. The living-as-producing recording process lends Basket Star an accretive complexity but one steered by the steady hand of a veteran auteur, courting the chaos for it's surprises and it's fertility (with a big assist from mix engineer Aaron Adams). The indie jazz ballad "Best Version (of My Short Life)" kicks off the record on a lush and sophisticated note. The standout second song, "Big Bad" as well as the strong single candidate "Pink Cloud" find Adir back in his deepest pocket-jangling, achingly melodic indie folk-rock. The gently rocking acoustic title track demonstrates one of his most striking gifts as guitarist and singer-an easy swagger that makes all this flowing musical richness seem unconscious, almost accidental. 1. Best Version (of my short life) 2. Big Bad 3. Reacting 4. New York 5. Basket Star 6. Foggy Hill 7. Getting Home 8. Go Hard 9. Same Way 10. Pink Cloud 11. Another Potion (heavy tape) 12. A Little Love (couldn't hurt)

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