You've heard the story before. Like so many others, Brooklyn based singer songwriter Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson has battled addiction, failures, and the like en route to making his debut LP. After years in the Brooklyn music scene, Miles had recorded several albums with as many early projects. Miles' alcohol and drug addictions, combined with erratic behavior led to the demise of each start. This of course, led Miles further down the road to nothing, dead ending on a period of time where Miles was living on park benches on Coney Island. But, after the darkest night comes the brightest day. Miles continued writing and built the foundation for his fucking rad debut album. Somewhere along the way he hooked up with members of Grizzly Bear and recruited production from Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio.
This album was released last year, thus, I'm a little late getting here. I heard about it first from a comment by Carrie Brownstein after SXSW. It's hard to draw parallels with this album. Comparisons create expectations, and I'm apprehensive to do that here. If I had to describe it; I'd take Elvis Perkins songwriting, add a 2 pack a day singer, and add a splash of Doug Martsch guitar work, if that makes sense. The sound changes from song to song making for a great album, front to back. Hope you like it, support this dude.
"Buriedfed" mp3:
http://www.box.net/shared/z7v0ngm6jb
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