2010
The sounds of Africa have taken multi-instrumentalist Chico Mann—aka Marcos García—all over the world. So it’s fitting that on Analog Drift, his second album and first for Wax Poetics Records, he’s returning the favor. Over the course of twelve thumping, impossibly soulful songs, including
Actually containing 11 songs, and they really aren't "demos". Although nearly every number begins with just Cash's voice and acoustic guitar or piano, they are gradually filled in with tasteful electric guitar, bass, and keys, which are too exquisite to be called unfinished demos.
The album that broke Rosanne Cash's truce with country radio, Interiors matches acoustic-based surface beauty with some of the most harrowing songwriting this side of Alex Chilton's Sister Lovers psychodramas.
