Or Give Me Death - Aqueduct
With the advent of inexpensive home-recording technology, it makes sense that so many musicians would gravitate towards the one-person-band template. Even still, Aqueduct’s third album seems to arrive alongside a glut of such projects. The former singer and guitarist for the late ’90s modern rock act band Epperley, David Terry’s work not only stands out by employing a host of friends to pitch in, but his knowledge of band dynamics helps the songs he plays most every instrument on escape the samey-ness that bogs down so much bedroom-pop. Terry’s work has frequently been compared to Modest Mouse and Flaming Lips, but in his savvy, Nilsson-esque songwriting style and the keyboard-driven, lyric-heavy nature of his songs, perhaps a far better comparison would be his label mates the Long Winters. Imagine the Long Winters if they were far more in love with the synth and guitar textures of the ’80s than the precious pop sounds of the ’70s and you’d have this, a hard to pigeonhole album which greatly rewards multiple listens.
