If you enjoy blood-curdling chords, engaging storytelling, and instrumentation as characterization you will enjoy Jay Vilnai's Thorns All Over album. Walking through a collection of oddities, a little macabre, and a dark whimsy paints this album and I love it.
Jay Vilnai's style of music combines Chicago blues, mixtures of jazz styles and Balkan folk music. We open to "The Lake" and "Woman or a Gun," both full of music delights and horrors of lyrics, "I never met a woman or a gun I did not like." Leaves you with the visual of the murderous dark smile of a murderer. And "I took her to the lake." Well, we all know what happened after that. Piano and guitar play disparate but aligned parts on "The Lake". The tension has been this creepy since Scott Walker released The Drift. This album is a fantastic listening party album to discuss the lyrics, the avante-garde/pop/off the edge style that is experimented throughout. Washed-out guitars, mangled percussion, out-of-tune pianos and disembodied vocals capture the essence of both victims and perpetrators throughout the album. Sometimes even not being able to tell who is who on the edge of madness. "The Forest" explores more striking piano notes which often sound like shards of breaking glass. You do get the feeling you are walking through a dark, enchanted forest. "The Night We Met" is the last song on the album, and it may be my favorite because it captures a bit of everything in the album without the intensity. Yet it is a remembrance of the beginning of when that devilish murderous thought was first planted. "Do you remember when my hands were on your throat?" This album is a macabre storytelling feast for those with an appreciation for the little bit odd.
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