{"product_id":"aaron-mf-olson-songs-album-ii","title":"Aaron MF Olson - Songs Album II","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Songs Album II’ is LA musician Aaron MF Olson’s Country Thyme\u003cbr\u003eRecords debut, his second ‘songs for singing’ album in just over a\u003cbr\u003edecade of releasing music. Aaron’s a sweet fellow. He can be salty\u003cbr\u003eon occasion, but it’s put to good use here. His songs mix satiric,\u003cbr\u003econfessional and experimental lyric modes and his music’s cut from a\u003cbr\u003efine cloth of head-informed, classically sweet and soft pop \/ rock\u003cbr\u003emodes. Most of all, ‘Songs Album II’ is music for listening.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo listen to and to play music; that’s been his highest aim, for most of\u003cbr\u003ehis life. His high school band was a post-rock group that morphed into\u003cbr\u003ea surf music outfit; he’s been similarly guided by such polarities and\u003cbr\u003econgruities in the time since. He’s released four albums of ‘Baywatch\u003cbr\u003eKrautrock’ with LA Takedown and played and recorded in many other\u003cbr\u003eprojects, including but not limited to his experimental Music Tracing\u003cbr\u003eEnsemble, exotica collective Other Delights, Bedouine, Coffin Prick,\u003cbr\u003ePapa M, Tommy Peltier, Vetiver and ‘L.A.’s Most grateful Dead cover\u003cbr\u003eband’, Richard Pictures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAaron’s solo credits include 2020’s switched-on essay, ‘Ranchera ‘22\u003cbr\u003e{Synthesizer Interpretations of the Songs of José Alfredo Jiménez}’\u003cbr\u003eand the 2022 New Age release, ‘For Dorothy’. He does film \/\u003cbr\u003etelevision composition too; most recently, the Original Motion Picture\u003cbr\u003eSoundtrack for Matt Hewitt’s indie horror film, ‘Hoagie’.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf all this implies a wide palette of input \/ output, ‘Songs Album II’ has\u003cbr\u003eit in reserve, framed scrupulously in a sequence of nice, light folk \/\u003cbr\u003erock ditties, their spacey-yet-precise arrangements colourfully blowing\u003cbr\u003eup the songs’ personal values. It’s Aaron, on most acoustic and\u003cbr\u003eelectric guitars and basses, keyboards, harmonica, synth and vocals,\u003cbr\u003eRobin MacMillian on drums, Tara Milch flute, Michael Sachs clarinets,\u003cbr\u003eLuke Csehak bassoon and trumpet, additional guitars and vocals\u003cbr\u003efrom Blue Broderick, Bart Davenport and Wayne Faler, keyboards\u003cbr\u003eand vocals from Andrew Dorsett and vocals by Matt Popieluch,\u003cbr\u003emaking ‘Songs Album II’ a collection of widescreen, hi-def songs and\u003cbr\u003esounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAaron’s voice is light-toned, gentle and tunefully raspy, falling\u003cbr\u003esomewhere between Jack Nitzsche, Van Dyke Parks, Robert Wyatt\u003cbr\u003eand personal inspirations John Simon, Stephen Pastel, Jim O’Rourke\u003cbr\u003eand Kermit’s nephew, Robin. And Emmett Otter. Not a bad bunch to be sharing the water with.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Country Thyme","offers":[{"title":"Vinyl LP","offer_id":54515206881603,"sku":"RPT-24302","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/1601\/8499\/files\/aaronmfsleeve.png?v=1780149203","url":"https:\/\/www.recordplant.co.uk\/products\/aaron-mf-olson-songs-album-ii","provider":"Record Plant","version":"1.0","type":"link"}