{"id":20365,"date":"2021-02-02T05:30:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T10:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=20365"},"modified":"2021-02-02T06:56:25","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T11:56:25","slug":"album-review-tenant-from-zero-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/02\/album-review-tenant-from-zero-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Tenant From Zero &#8212; Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-20366\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenant_from_zero.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenant_from_zero.jpg 350w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenant_from_zero-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/tenant_from_zero-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/>With a sound halfway between late-period Roxy Music and \u201890s triphop\/chillwave\/downtempo <em>a la<\/em> Massive Attack and Zero 7, Brooklyn-based Tenant From Zero makes moody, hauntingly romantic music for the ages. The arrangements on <i>Flight<\/i> are nicely balanced between spare and lush aesthetics. Buttery fretless bass lines, shimmering keyboard textures, subtle, understated percussion and the soulful vocals of songwriter Paul Darrah add up to an alluring whole.<\/p>\n<p>The album&#8217;s accompanying press materials cite similarities to Prefab Sprout, and that connection can indeed be heard strongly in tunes like \u201cThe End Away,\u201d with its creamy female backing vocals and understated horn charts. There\u2019s little about <i>Flight<\/i> that marks it as a 2020 release; its sonic connections are much more firmly rooted in sophisticated pop of the past, but the album still feels fresh somehow.<\/p>\n<p>Listen closely to \u201cThe Bomb You Dropped\u201d \u2013 with its keening violins and alluringly dissonant keyboards \u2013 and see if you\u2019re not taken back to Roxy Music\u2019s first single, 1972\u2019s \u201cVirginia Plain.\u201d TFZ doesn\u2019t steal from the song so much as conjure its sound and vibe, applying it to a wholly new composition. This kind of borrowing is admirable when it\u2019s done in such a creative manner.<\/p>\n<p>Tenant From Zero isn\u2019t a band; it\u2019s the working name for Darrah\u2019s recording project. But the album \u2013 recorded in Norway and Brooklyn \u2013 features instrumental support from members of Ladybug Transistor, Ariel Pink and others. Anyone who luxuriates in the sounds of <i>Avalon<\/i>, <i>Two Wheels Good<\/i> (<i>Steve McQueen<\/i> if you\u2019re in the British Isles) and similar efforts will find much to enjoy in the nine tracks on Tenant From Zero\u2019s debut release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a sound halfway between late-period Roxy Music and \u201890s triphop\/chillwave\/downtempo a la Massive Attack and Zero 7, Brooklyn-based Tenant From Zero makes moody, hauntingly romantic music for the ages. 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