Album Review: Delicate Steve - This Is Steve

Beloved by such noiseniks as Yeasayer and Death Grips, Noo Joisey-ite (Delicate) Steve Marion remains defiantly self-sufficient for this third album.

This Is Steve presents ten songs without vocals (don't call them instrumentals) which allegedly introduces the artist as he sees himself. Guitars like a bumblebee with a blocked nose (Animals) or intercepting AC/DC's radio waves with splices of ZZ Top and a Pong game (Cartoon Rock) amuse fleetingly, but it seems more an exercise than a fully formed album. With almost every track running under three minutes, there's simply not enough time offered to get to know him.