Beauty Land: CD Memoriam 4 My Swimming Brain

4 My Swimming Brain

Josh Klinghoffer and Joe Lally

Norwegian musician and novelist Jenny Hval announces her new album Classic Objects

including Brass bands from Oaxaca and musicians from the National Symphony

even to the point of disillusionment

Beauty Land: CD Memoriam 4 My Swimming BrainGreg Mendez has always been an economical songwriter he wields restraint and simplicity as tools, the core of his songs sharpened into simple, cutting truths. On Beauty Land, his new album and debut LP for Dead Oceans, were guided by a wry but forgiving narrator, an underdog who has learned to balance cynicism and faith. These songs are self effacing without self pity, carefully constructed altars of imperfection channeled through pop melodies,