What I Forgot
(2007) $10 Tiger
(2006) $10 Dream Water
Rain Music
(2005) $20 Compassionate
Relay
(2002) $20
If you're keeping track of local singer-songwriter/producer/recording artist Corwin Fox (and if you're a neo-folk fan, you should be), this dandy six-track release is the second EP (following last year's Tiger) since his last outstanding full-lenth, 2005's Dream Water Rain Music. A gentle and curiously compelling mix of instrumentals and vocal tracks, He Remembers sounds much like the kind of trippy, dreamy music box funky parents would love to find for their children. These are simple tunes with haunting melodies, hushed vocals, crisp guitar lines and some undeniably intentional plinky-plunky instrumentation that almost begs the listener to drift off into a dream world.
It's really not hard to imagine Fox singing these songs to his children (which he probably does), but the passion he always puts behind his projects - including this week's co-star, Sarah Metzner's Daybreak Mourning, which he produced - always makes his music much more satisfying than the droopy Ron Sexsmith, to whom he is often compared.
(written by John Threlfall - Monday Magazine)