Upset The Rhythm
presents…
STEPHEN STEINBRINK
Tuesday 4 October
The
Lexington, 96-98 Pentonville Rd, Angel, N1 9JB
7.30pm
| £7 | http://www.wegottickets.com/event/363905
STEPHEN
STEINBRINK is a 27 year old songwriter and recording engineer born and raised
in the arid desert of Arizona and currently floating around the western USA,
dividing his time between the green spaces around Olympia, Washington and the
concrete flats of Oakland, California. After more than ten
years of touring and secluded home recording, Stephen Steinbrink has cataloged
several albums worth of gorgeous melody, quotidian dread and desert blight in
his stark, minimal pop. Yet the songs on his latest record Anagrams (Melodic
Records), beautiful yet unflinching portraits of addiction and mental illness
are captured in his most meticulous and high-fidelity production to date. While
one might expect the record to be a final destination, a tidy hi-res
culmination of all this journeying, the album's particularly varied styles and
sincere lyrical uncertainty portray a search that still continues. Truly
engaged with the unintelligible and absurd, Steinbrink is more cultural
observer than 21st century busker with his intelligently cool left-of-centre
approach to a sincere melody, using pop tropes to convey something deeper. At
the same time, it’s his lyrics that mark Steinbrink out as a true punk minstrel
trying to how to figure out how to be a person in the world.
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