Origami Ghosts

Solving My Own Puzzles

(Hand To Mouth Media)

Record Review by Marcel Feldmar

Soft guitar pluck strained psychedelic folk trippiness that moves up and down like some half-remembered trip from some summer in the past. Indie-folk rock that gets you in the mood for some picnic blanket reading and red wine drinking. Falls in nicely beside the mellowest moments of Modest Mouse, and throws in a cute kind of quirkiness that plays well beside some of Will Oldham’s work, but it’s a much warmer feeling – maybe not warmer, but lusher. Sometimes it feels a little like if Pinback was from some rustic barnyard in Ohio. The Modest Mouse comparison hits more than once, not only in the guitar play, but also in the vocals, which can move in that almost hushed rasp of some backwoods rap, and the movement of the voice as it goes up and down across long sentences that feels almost more like storytelling than song singing. Songs that reference lost books from childhood, like “When The Sidewalk Ends” and songs that fall into that Red Red Meat / Califone kind of country voice.