There are so many highs and lows on this album, but as talented as all the members are, especially Rachman on guitar, Jones is the fulcrum upon which the rest of the band teeters. That’s why the simple acoustic ditty “Summertime Dear” will likely be your favorite tune off the album… like Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day,” all the sincere woo-pitching somehow feels like the naivete of the doomed. Only if you listen closely can you pick out the line about wanting to “keep on running, because we can sleep when we’re dead,” which feels straight out of a poem by Bonnie Parker to Clyde Barrow.

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Kyoung Kim and Drew Denny—who is also part of L.A. RECORD—are not (quite yet) going to change the world, but they will reflect it back more clearly with the Reclamations series. First is Planetarium, a dome made of recycled parts where you can see the stars inside Hollywood and Highland. This interview by Daiana Feuer.

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