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Cameron Winter – vocalist with the Brooklyn band Geese – set out to record his brilliant solo debut, Heavy Metal, by recruiting a band of absolute beginners on Craigslist.
He was able to enlist, among others, a distant cousin of John Lennon, as well as a five-year-old bass player named Jaden. It pays off.
His baritone voice, a honky clarion worn well beyond its years, tethers all and scintillates in the way Van Morrison can.
Across ten tonally sprawling cuts, he ruminates and luxuriates on what virtues worthlessness can afford.
The Rolling Stone, his opener, and Can’t Keep Anything, his closer, sees him multitracking into an all-wailing wall of warm vibrato – a ramshackle simmer that befits the album’s plinky appeal.
It’s delightfully mysterious, sounding like late era Nick Cave… if he were grounded for two weeks.
Rich in its ramshackle rewards, Brat summer turns nicely into Weirdo Winter Wonderland.
