[2/5]
The intersection of traditional styles like folk and blues with contemporary bedroom electro-pop is a curious place. It's often bustling with beats and the noise pollution of guitar fuzz, or studied and quiet with pockets of calm in a storm of modernity. Songwriter Warn Defever has stood fast at the helm of His Name Is Alive for 15 years, weaving in and out of just such busy musical landscapes, weathering the ebbs and swells of this genre and that with a collection of beautiful silences. Not so on the awkwardly titled Xmmer, a barely there, under-produced (or over, hard to tell) group of demo-like sketches. Singer Andy FM coos and sighs her way through a minimalist effort all around, but if she can't muster up much excitement, neither should you. (SILVER MOUNTAIN; silvermountainmedia.com) Luke O'Neil
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