Royal Green Royal Green Vinyl LP 2021

Tracklist:

1. Frosty
2. If Not For You
3. Breaking The River
4. Baby You're A Rich Man
5. What If You Are The Sick Passenger?
6. Halo Chagrin
7. Hallucinations
8. Dreams

Bryan devendorf's solo curio 'Royal Green' Doesn't possess the only-in-new York vibe of basquiat's work, there is something shared in its many-channels-open style of creation. Satellite signals, strange voices from lost television documentaries and radio operas are all woven into its fabric - like it's using these endless tides of media and Information to unlock the subconscious. Even its covers - Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, the National (with a nice big wink), the Beatles - are like stunning, albeit satanic takes on hymns, or like American standards almost dragged into the underworld. Like the best of Spacemen 3, Sparklehorse or massively underrated San Fran band Sky Green leopards - The music makes you queasy in one movement and lulls you into blissmode in the next. It's the very edge of outsider pop songwriting. For all the amphitheaters and festival Fields devendorf has played to over his career, 'Royal Green' Almost feels like an un-learning and a newfound love of homemade/found/fractured sounds - and how, if collaged just so, detritus can become stunningly gorgeous and surreal. And not without hooks. Look no further than "frosty" Which could be little Billy corgan's Decay demo tape from just before the Smashing Pumpkins appeared on the scene. And the unspooling, slightly unglued dream-pop of "breaking the river" Is as rapturous as it is sinister. And that's probably where devendorf wants it.