Chemical Friends:N. Lannon

Title: Chemical Friends

Label: Badman

Genre: singer/songwriter + electronics

Nyles Lannon, guitarist/vocalist for San Francisco’s buzz band Film School, teamed up with Bjork collaborater Thomas Knack for an intimate combination of acoustic folk and minimal electronica. Lannon’s vocal style bears a close resemblance to Nick Drake while the song structures rival recent indie rock songwriters like Iron and Wine and the Postal Service. Strapped only with his delicately finger picked guitar, Lannon enlisted a drum machine as a back up band. Most of the songs highlight the acoustic instrumentation, but on a couple tracks the electronics take the front stage (#4,7); Picture instead of Simon and Garfunkel, Simon and the Garfunkaltron 3000 drum machine. This is a solid debut album, though the songs can get a bit redundant. With a little more experimentation, this could be genius.

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