This Texan singer songwriter has a new album just out on Bella Union Records called Best Behavior which is aptly described as 'languid' in this review and interview on the Line of Best Fit site. It's full of simple pleasures. Intricate, guitar led, geometric alternative pop songs, that barely, if ever, breach the three minute mark.
Ari, (from the Hebrew for 'lion) Roar, the stage name for Caleb Campbell, crafts spacey, thoughtful songs that make me think of the vague pleasures of pharmaceutical drugs, like drifting in an out of dream states.
Reminiscent of the stop start textures of Pavement in terms of its guitars, his party piece and trump card is a swooning vocal manner that reminds me of Nineties Thom Yorke, Elliott Smith and going back from there, the oriental tinge of Lennon's most laid back early Seventies records.
If a certain saminess builds up over the course of the album, this will more than do for now. Campbell has come up with an interesting career formula and is a quiet but singular voice, transmitting from the left of the dial.
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