Album Of The Day: Straightjacket by Steven Delopoulos

Album Art of Steven Delopoulos's Straightjacket album - A drawing of a gray sky with white clouds. In the middle, two white birds are carrying a white straightjacket by the collar up into the sky, and a few other birds are flying nearby. Written by hand above is the artist's name and below in the sky is the album title.

Released 18 years ago this past November, this is the second solo album from Steven Delopoulos, the New York-based folk musician and lead singer of Burlap To Cashmere. On this album, Steven gets very experimental, with songs like "Ruin Of The Beast" and "As If Love Was A Sword" having Gregorian chant/choirs, and songs like "May I Always Keep My Feet On The Ground" and "Halt" having very percussive clapping and/or yelling. Even though it's a bit odd musically, I love his lyrics and melodies, they sound like something Paul Simon might have come up with though a bit more Mediterranean in feel. Songs like "Work To Be Done" and "She Held My Hand" are beautiful acoustic guitar ballads. This man is one of my favorite singer-songwriters ever, and it's terrible that he and his band are not more well-known. This album isn't as stellar as his solo debut, but I definitely love it a lot.

Release Year: 2007
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