Longsleeves

Posted on Tuesday March 3rd 2009 at 12:00am. Its tags are listed below.

Jame Musselman (aka “Long-sleeves”) apparently had a long December. The first of his three EPs, Black Swamp, is sparse folk fare that bogs down in a mire of heart-on-sleeve dreck about “weeping willow trees” and the like. In contrast, the subdued electronica of follow-ups The Rift and Wire Fraud suggests that Mr. Sleeves should spend more time with his laptop and less time with maudlin introspective masturbation.
Nathan Dinsdale’s review of Black Swamp, The Rift and Wire Fraud in San Diego’s CityBeat magazine.

Longsleeves

Posted on Thursday August 21st 2008 at 12:00pm. Its tags are listed below.

The muted glitches and scratchy backgrounds that underpin all the songs establish sort of a foundation to the gauzy keyboard lines and pads. There are no sharp edges here.