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defrogYou have to feel sorry for Sean Lennon.
No matter what he does musically, he will always be compared to his dad, and will invariably come up short of expectations. If he sounds like John Lennon (as half-brother Julian found out), he’ll be accused of trading on his dad’s legacy. And if he tries to sound original, everyone will complain that it’s not like the Beatles or even Double Fantasy.
So, since he can’t win either way, Sean has pretty much spent his musical career just doing whatever he wanted. And what he’s been doing since 2008 is The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger (a.k.a. The GOASST), which is basically him and girlfriend/model Charlotte Kemp Muhl. Which on paper doesn’t sound promising – Son Of Famous Musician + Girlfriend/Model.
Only it’s actually really good.
I confess I skipped the first two GOASST releases, if only because I wasn’t really aware of them. But a friend hipped me to their new release, Midnight Sun. I can’t say what I expected to hear, but it certainly wasn’t psychedelic sunshine pagan rock with left-field chord changes and really tight vocal harmonies.
Listen to this.
I have to say, I’m very impressed. The album does have some filler, but when it works, it’s mesmerizing. I’m not sure how it will hold up to repeated listenings, but for now I’m enjoying it.
It probably won't win over people who will forever compare him and Muhl to John and Yoko. But that's their problem. And it always has been.
Stop running away,
This is dF
No matter what he does musically, he will always be compared to his dad, and will invariably come up short of expectations. If he sounds like John Lennon (as half-brother Julian found out), he’ll be accused of trading on his dad’s legacy. And if he tries to sound original, everyone will complain that it’s not like the Beatles or even Double Fantasy.
So, since he can’t win either way, Sean has pretty much spent his musical career just doing whatever he wanted. And what he’s been doing since 2008 is The Ghost Of A Saber Tooth Tiger (a.k.a. The GOASST), which is basically him and girlfriend/model Charlotte Kemp Muhl. Which on paper doesn’t sound promising – Son Of Famous Musician + Girlfriend/Model.
Only it’s actually really good.
I confess I skipped the first two GOASST releases, if only because I wasn’t really aware of them. But a friend hipped me to their new release, Midnight Sun. I can’t say what I expected to hear, but it certainly wasn’t psychedelic sunshine pagan rock with left-field chord changes and really tight vocal harmonies.
Listen to this.
I have to say, I’m very impressed. The album does have some filler, but when it works, it’s mesmerizing. I’m not sure how it will hold up to repeated listenings, but for now I’m enjoying it.
It probably won't win over people who will forever compare him and Muhl to John and Yoko. But that's their problem. And it always has been.
Stop running away,
This is dF
