Melbourne’s Lehmann B Smith continues to craft jaw-dropping beauty on this latest album.
His compositions are elegant gossamer tapestries that engage and inspire — No Such Thing As A View a fibrous country rocker with moments of skeletal hubris; thumping-piano pop ramble, Time, is barroom tilted with consciousness wilted. The back-porch pathos is stunningly interwoven with haunting reverie and a morbid curiosity — about the physical nature of the human body and all it’s designed to control and contain — and other bodies — water, the night sky — that promise to embrace or threaten to dwarf.
