The ubiquitous multi-instrumentalist Ken Stringfellow staffed Alex Chilton’s Big Star for seventeen years, prolonged REM’s painful decline, and co-fronts Seattle’s resilient power pop professionals The Posies.
His solo albums beat his band projects, omnivorously devouring vast swathes of canonical American pop tropes, tailgating bigger beasts like Wilco or The Flaming Lips.
Drop Your Pride is a Broadway Bond theme belter; Pray is horn-laden Seventies soul; the weightlessly weird Odorless, Colorless, Tasteless recalls Chilton’s experimental moments; Doesn’t It Remind You Of Something? channels Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra’s broken-hearted country pop duets.
Stringfellow is the Leonard Zelig of American Alterno-rock.
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