--and these pages scare me, to the point of neglect--
Not often enough I find out about a new album by someone I really like by, literally stumbling across it. In the day of endless promotion by record companies trying to market records like the latest sit-com, flipping through the album crate at the record store, or the new releases at your favorite online vendor and finding one you had no idea existed is rare. That's how I found out about the recent Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson album
Summer of Fear. Chances are you haven't heard much about MBAR, despite having a name that almost requires punctuation. I wrote on his self-titled debut earlier this year, when I stumbled across in the randomness of the internet. If you want the life story look in the archives.
His recent release on Saddle Creek, with some help from TV on the Radio's Kyp Maloneoa is S-O-L-I-D. Miles sounds more assertive and grown up on this album. Listening to him, you'd think he was a shoe in for the lost Wilbury. In reference to the original super group, the Traveling Wilburys. At times he sounds like someone trying to do a Bob Dylan impersonation. This is not to say he sounds like Bob Dylan, in fact he sounds more like Tom Petty, but he has a unique voice, more akin to Bob. It's everything you want "indie singer-songwriter" to sound like; assuming that's a genre. Go do that damn thing!
Listen Here:
Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson - "The Sound"
