About "Breathe"
If its predecessor Lucky could be described as a great landscape, the songs on Breathe take a far more focused approach, as if looking down into a deeper body of water. The band was pared down to four players: Jean Synodinos (lead and background vocals, acoustic guitar); Charles Rieser (electric and acoustic guitars, ambient sounds); Rob Hooper (drums and percussion); and, Brad Houser (bass and baritone sax). The album's tracks are bookended by distinctly different versions of the same song -- Yes -- because, as we all know, the same word can have distinctly different meanings at any point in time.
Jean recommends "Waiting for the Light to Change" for its ambient sounds: Brad Houser's baritone sax (which sounds like trucks on a distant highway), as well as the sound of actual windshield wipers coming out of the bridge.
Listen to all the tracks below, then come back to this link to grab either the CD (cdbaby) or digital downloads (cdbaby and iTunes).
