Freedy Johnston's finely turned folk-rock songs have carefully balanced melodies that he sings in a winsome tenor.
Freedy Johnston's finely turned country-rock songs have carefully balanced melodies that he sings in a winsome tenor.
(Sinagra) FREEDY JOHNSTON (Tomorrow) Freedy Johnston's finely turned country-rock songs have carefully balanced melodies that he sings in a winsome tenor.
8 30 p.m., Bowery Ballroom, 6 Delancy Street, (212 260-4700, $15, $17 at the door.. (Sinagra) FREEDY JOHNSTON (Tuesday) Freedy Johnston's finely turned country-rock songs have carefully balanced melodies that he sings in a winsome tenor.
More emblematic, though, is the album's closer, an arrangement of the Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" that he plays alone, balancing melody, bass line and chords: beauty and bedazzlement, unabashed, all at once.
The biggest fish in the pond, by a healthy margin, is SONIC YOUTH, which has always balanced hazy melody against harsh discord.
Mr. Minchin's score, one of the most original in years, balances melody on the edge of dissonance, so that even can-do anthems have an undertow of apprehension.
Recorded over two years at his Laurel Canyon home, and featuring appearances by a gospel choir, a string quartet, Johnny Marr and fellow Chili Pepper Flea, The Empyrean is characterised by endless shifts of tone and volume, through peaks and troughs of emotion that balance melody with layers of dissonance.
For whatever reason, all this theory set Mr. Zenon on fire: the outcome was a direct, powerful music, balancing folkish melody and infernally complex rhythm.
(Chinen) Becca Stevens Band (Saturday and Thursday) A vocalist and guitarist who balances deep melody against lyrical caprice, Ms. Stevens has been touring behind "Weightless," a bright album released last fall on Sunnyside.
(Chinen) Becca Stevens Band (Thursday) A vocalist and guitarist who balances deep melody against lyrical caprice, Ms. Stevens has been touring behind "Weightless," a bright album released last fall on Sunnyside.
