Storefront Church
Ink & Oil
Northern Transmissions 65点相当
大げさなオーケストラからの
入り。
ピアノ/オーケストラと合わさると
一瞬、Rufus Wainwright を思い起こさせる。
この方はもう少し声が細いが。
メディア等では、
Father John Misty との類似が指摘され、
影響として Scott Walker の名前が出ていた。
アルバムとしてはちょっとだるいが、
75点くらいは出ていてもいいのでは？と
個人的には思う。
https://northerntransmissions.com/ink-oil-by-storefront-church/
Sonically vast and extravagant like an abandoned château, Ink & Oil, the second record from songwriter Lukas Frank aka Storefront Church contains many different spaces within to explore. The grandiose arrangements populating the first portion of this ambitiously crafted twelve-song tracklist present themselves like the younger sibling to Father John Misty’s sardonic and sophisticated sensibility circa Pure Comedy and God’s Favorite Customer. The likeness between Storefront Church and Father John Misty goes beyond theologically themed monikers, it’s in the vocal performance, often surreal-leaning lyrical stylings and lush strings steering the way for the warm tonal palette that persists throughout the LP courtesy of the live orchestra featured on every track. The storytelling and set-dressing of “Melting Mirror”, with mentions of “ferris wheels” “antique songs” and “brights souls of acrobats” and also “King of The Lobby” featuring a cheers to a bride and groom, cannot but make you aware of the mark Tillman has clearly left on Lukas Frank. At times, this similarity can be distracting and that’s before noting the Rufus Wainwright resemblances (Frank’s vocal twin!) and the harmonies that instantly herald The Beach Boys honeyed hue elsewhere on the record.
It’s no surprise that there’s also a Scott Walker-shaped imprint on the darker moments on Ink & Oil, given his influence on Tillman’s songwriting embedded in Frank’s work. It’s Walker’s more avant-garde material (1995’s Tilt and The Drift, which followed a little over a decade later) that echo in the menacing and abrasive “The Manhattan Project” and the shapeshifting “Coal” which doesn’t shy away from its use of shrill string accompaniments to unsettle the listener. The latter, unfortunately, is one of the few instances where Frank’s tendency towards crafting these vivid mini-operas gets tangled and confused in the directions it wants to go with its deviations into a dreamlike fairground music state.
ロスアンゼルスのソングライターの Lukas Frank、
別名 Storefront Church
2nd
過去に ゴールデングローブ賞を受賞した番組「THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT」に
"THE GIFT"という曲を提供ていたりとか。
Featured in the Netflix series 'The Queen's Gambit'
Written and performed by Lukas Frank
前作が気になった。
As We Pass
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