Solace My King

If you were to guess what a solo album from David Thomas Owen IV (ex-guitarist for Ohio band Lovedrug) would sound like, you might be at a loss. The musician's former band are mainly the vision of their frontman Michael Shepard, so it's nearly impossible to discern what sort of music the group's other members might gravitate toward creating. As it turns out, Owen's wistful, emotional songs fall somewhere between the self-aware indie rock of the Snake The Cross The Crown and the psychedelic, piano-laced layers of Mercury Rev. It's a strange dichotomy of sound that works better on some songs (the surging "Liars") than on others (the repetitive "Maybe I'm Crazy"); but even when the sound isn't quite on point, it's still interesting.

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Liars