Susanna Phillips - PaysagesSusanna Phillips Paysages

The album begins on the jazzy & breezier side of things with on songs like "Brookside" and "Staying in"

including Schubert's hauntingly beautiful "Erlking

Mac Critter

As the band from New Jersey puts it

the unadorned feel of the instrumentation allowing the raw emotion of Savage's lyrics to come through

It is transformed here into a rock'n'roll and even hard rock fury

and reflect different aspects of him: from a young man stylistically unsure of himself to the confident maître

The two musicians

where he studied under Robert Leonardy and Jean Micault

and acoustic guitars passionately playing Byrds/Band style roots music from Austin TX

Badly Drawn Boy

as composer Bernard Herrmann had intended