AVALLONE, KYLE
CRAZY DREAMS (TAXI GAUCHE)
The sophomore album from NYC musician and singer-songwriter Kyle Avallone, is a collection of nostalgic meditations that take you out of the smoky bar and into the gray daylight of a seaside town.
It is a cinematic dreamscape steeped in warm vocals, lush synthesizers, and sweeping steel guitars.
Throughout the ten songs, tender narratives play like home movies on a living room wall, revealing little worlds and distilled memories.
Recorded at Studio G in Brooklyn with Jeff Berner (Psychic TV), Avallone reaches beyond the lo-fi sleaze of his 2020 debut, Last Minute Man, for a higher fidelity and grander sound palette.
"After making a record by myself on an old four-track tape machine, it felt like a natural progression to go into a proper studio and play music with my friends".
The core band consists of Mark Perro (The Men) on keys and Russell Hymowitz on bass, who both sing backing vocals, along with David Christian on drums.
On several tunes, pedal steel played by Jon "Catfish" DeLorme (The Nude Party) dances around Avallone's baritone voice, delivering a twang that is distinctively more New York than Nashville.