Giora Tal music

YouTube Jonathan Bree’s second solo album, A Little Night Music, confirms how far Bree has travelled since he first achieved prominence with his former band mates in The Brunettes, an outfit that successfully fused indie sounds with somewhat twee bubblegum catchiness . Although served with a heavy dose of ironic detachment, this indie bubblegum amalgam proved to be simultaneously irritating and irresistibly hooky. That’s not what we hear when we listen to ALNM, though. Orchestral maneuvres in the night Although ALNM certainly has its own lighter touches, it deftly situates even those moments within an overall mood that it considerably darker than anything we heard from The Brunettes. As ALNM plays, its combination of orchestral maneuvers and crooning singing can’t help but remind the listener of the sweetly crooned but acerbic lyrics of Lee Hazlewood or the dramatic moodiness of Scott Walker. Unlike the extremely rich orchestration that accompanied Walker’s voice, however, Br