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Lavender Diamond
THE ECHO
Lavender Diamond are back, and they come in peace, as usual, and also with synthesizers, which is a bit more unusual. The heartbroke piano-folk they made on their one-and-a-half beautiful albums about five years ago is still there on the new Incorruptible Heart, but there is also approximately 147 percent more bleeps and boops and all kinds of other never-before-Lavenderized things, thanks to producer Damian Kulash of OK GO. And truly, he produces the hell outta this thing -- can you say "hell" in a piece about Lavender Diamond? Truly, too, it's beautiful in ways no one would've expected. This is a record that wants to climb up high and sit pretty next to Kate Bush, Tom Tom Club or even Blondie. It's pop that's equal parts art, smarts and heart. --Chris Ziegler
Ladyhawke
THE ECHOPLEX
New Zealand-born multi-instrumentalist Pip Brown takes her stage name, Ladyhawke, from the 1985 fantasy film. Before taking that moniker, Brown was part of a band named after the 1971 classic Two-Lane Blacktop. Both of these nods to film are perfectly fitting, as Brown's music creates lucid visuals, from soft-focus fantasy to roadside stands flying by in a reckless late-night drive. To craft her songs, the Kiwi uses signature sounds from a vast array of genres, incorporating crunched guitars, fuzzy synths, super-clean precision bass lines, wah effects and more. She blends these effects and styles so that her sound rarely embraces a single one, and yet each is always present -- like a delicious smoothie studded with pieces of fruit. Her synth-driven mix of pop and rock walks a line between the very latest in pop music and memory-invoking vintage sounds. --Diamond Bodine-Fischer
Tuesday, September 25
Ferraby Lionheart
BOOTLEG BAR
Gentle but firm, Ferraby Lionheart strikes with a focused intelligence underlying his down-to-earth, laid-back persona and his engrossing story-songs. He's a real musician with superior technical craft: His acoustic guitar- and piano-accompanied pieces take their cues from Dylan's '60s folk and, a bit strangely, what sounds like Elton John channeling Cole Porter. Ferraby's love-and-loss-and-love-again subject matter often is paired with bubbly, bouncy music, giving his songs a resonant ambiguity and highly visual impact. With eyes shut and a slight grimace, he'll deliver a lyrically involving and musically deep set from his Catch the Brass Ring EP and Jack of Hearts full-length, and a few new tunes to boot. --John Payne
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The Echo
1822 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
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