Roman
Evening
"Tiny Ladies"
CD
Bitter
Stag Records
Genres: indie pop, indie rock
Bitter Stag
PO Box 190008
San Francisco CA
94119-008
Jun 8 - 14 2003 |
This
disc, a collection of six songs and four instrumentals, functions as a
soundtrack to Roman Evening singer Adam Klein's bookl Tiny Ladies,
"a stark and suspenseful novel about remorse, the ironies of
intervention and the terrible courage it sometimes takes to start
again." How exciting!
While I can't tell you much about the book and how good it is, I
can let you know that this is a pretty good album; its moody
atmosphere has a very dramatic, epic feel. The songs with vocals
are predictably the most notable ones on this disc - highlights include
the gritty "Song For The Ashes" and the elegant and
intelligent "Casework". "Hook of Doubts" is
also a very exceptional tune, with a brooding bassline and some
fantastic melodies. Roman Evening's dark music is
supplemented nicely by Klein's poetic, intellectual lyrics,
which add a whole dimension to the music.
The instrumental pieces, meanwhile, are nice interludes; they open
and close the album perfectly, and "King's Theme" is slotted
right in the middle to separate the hard-hitting vocal songs into two
clumps.
If you're up for an intelligent, cinematic pop album, you can't go
wrong with Roman Evening's Tiny Ladies.
86%
Matt Shimmer [Vitals:
10 songs, distributed by the
label, released 2003] |