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CITY LIGHTS is the intimate and expansive debut album from Brett Bixby. Part living room confession and part landscape journey, this is a record you can listen through… a throwback to handcrafted albums that expand and unfold with repeated listens. The album is the audio equivalent of a must-see independent film. A listen may elicit the honesty of Neil Young, the grace of Nick Drake or the craft of Elvis Costello. As eardrums.blogspot.com insightfully says, “I believe in this album and the words Brett Bixby sings.”
Bixby is known to turn a phrase in simple but unexpected ways. The title track sets the stage, “The holes among the truth are like the stars along the sky, they’re easier to see without the city lights.” These words appear straightforward but when taken with the lushly spare musical backdrop, they feel more like the large roots you can see just above the surface. Produced with brushtrokes by Chris Karn (mastermind of Deccatree – myspace/deccatree), each track is like an audio polaroid colored with the touches of an inspired cast. From the string-laden latticework of ‘Fireside’ to the dream stitched intimacy of ‘Spilling’, Bixby has hit an easy stride and the music is a reflection of a newfound ability to stretch into wide open spaces.
This is a record with a seasoned sensibility, deftly combining hues of folk, rock and pop into an honest blend of homegrown songs that will lull you from your sense of time. Bixby honed his craft as part of a collective of friends who created out of a musical ark of a warehouse known in Long Beach, CA as ‘The Space’. Underground shows there were an incubator of music and friendship. Since fronting the headstrong Long Beach rock outfit Twelvehourmary and collaborating with the likes of Buchanan, The Dibs, Molly Jenson and Chris Paul Overall, Brett has taken his experiences and emerged from the natural demise of both the band and the warehouse with this 10 song album that offers up the reflection of an artist with a distinctive vision.
CITY LIGHTS is an independent record grown from the ground up - a listen for yourself proposition. Put this record in your car stereo and let the songs color the landscapes outside. Word of mouth is spreading and 2008 is likely to see Brett Bixby rise in the realm of stellar independent music.
Album now available online @ cdbaby.com or downloadable on iTunes.
While City Lights grows organically, Brett's musical journey has recently taken a new direction as he has joined up with Rocco Deluca & The Burden. Deluca is a long time friend from Long Beach and the two collaborated as musical mates in formative years. On the heels of successful opening runs with Keane and John Mayer, RDB has just finished a US tour in support of I Trust You To Kill Me and is working on a followup record. See myspace.com/roccodeluca for information and tourdates.
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