Description
On first glance, the line-up on Shame Engine / Blood Pleasure, the seventh studio album from Chicagos Health&Beauty, might indicate a passing of the torch. The recording features a large cast of musicians from the outfits past and its present helping the bands founder and sole constant Brian J Sulpizio achieve his idiosyncratic vision a sound and ethos hes been kicking around, retooling and finessing for more than 15 years, a few years after moving to Chicago from his native Defiance, Ohio in 2000.
From song to song the bands sound encapsulates detail-rich pop songs, extended jamming inspired by Chicagos free jazz legacy and devastatingly potent country-folk tunes. Sulpizio has never been hung up on genre but his imagination and musicianship has allowed him to bring far-flung ideas to beautiful fruition.
They explore the tricksy time signatures and artful insouciance of Deerhoof or Tortoise with aplomb. Mojo
The passive loveliness of Brian J. Sulpizios voice [], his melodies call to mind the soft dreaminess of Sufjan Stevens The Sunday Times
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