Description
While Kelley Stoltzs nigh-religious reverence for all things Beatles, Beach Boys and Kinks has been at the fore on recent albums Below The Branches and Circular Sounds, his new album, To Dreamers, blends a bit more post-punk abandon into its layered everyman pop.
Tasteful horn adornments blow against tom-tom beats and 12-string guitars meet reverbed mellotrons under Stoltzs warm vocals.
Kelley, now a veritable godfather to the burgeoning San Francisco under/overground (folks like Thee Oh Sees, Sonny & The Sunsets, The Fresh & Onlys), has blazed a path since the late 90s as a home-recording guru and multiinstrumentalist.
No slouch on the live front, Kelley was asked to open The Raconteurs first US tour in 2006, toured the USA and Europe with the Dirtbombs in 2008, and, through a twist of volcano ash cloud karma, was the support act to childhood heroes Echo And The Bunnymen in 2010.
His songs have been used for international ad campaigns for Volvo and Marriott Hotels, as well as in TV and movies.
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