Herzfield
Lauter : A walk will take my mind off things (F,2005)**
It is difficult for me to review urban indie albums that sound like I’ve heard this many times before, and without many elements that stand out, or without a deeper lying content to reveals itself easily. This “grey” area however is what has most occasional listeners, finding for them what they need to recognise, also with words of the small mind communicating most directly. The group has bass, guitar, some rhodes piano, and vocals, and there’s a certain youngster rhythmic rock attractiveness, with quieter moments, using lap steel, singing saw, banjo, glockenspiel,... with a result which will still appeal more to urban rock singer-songwriter and indierock lovers than to those who reveal acid folk inspirations (which are most artists on my singer-songwriter review pages). But there’s also a small element that makes it attractive, which is that bit of a necessary musical exploration to their sounds.