Spenking

***Like a (colorful simile), SPENKING is SPENCER KINGMAN making his vinyl debut after more than a decade of (way of saying house shows/DIY venues) and playing with DIRTY PROJECTORS, FLASPAR, VIKING MOSES, LOW SKIES, DEAR TICK, CASTANETS and JANA HUNTER. Kingman sings lively, unencumbered melodies in a lovely high-register over inventive guitar work. His arrangements are direct and sparse. This inviting, intimate sound is contrasted with dense rhyming lyrics charged with an obscure sense of catastrophe, disorientation, and dread. Recommended for fans of the Harry Smith Folk Anthology, Patti Smith, Gil-Scott Heron, The Mamas and the Papas, Rufus Wainwright, Leonard Cohen, and Diane Cluck. Another high quality vinyl release from Ethereal Sequence Records (Konrad, Paula). (STREET DATE - 4/22/2014)  
 
“There is no one like Spencer Kingman. This is music that stops you in your tracks, demands your focused attention, requires you to be fully absorbed. It’s not often that a ‘singer-songwriter’ can achieve such results. This is my favorite kind of music, Spencer is my favorite songwriter, and these are his best songs.”—Nat Baldwin (Dirty Projectors