Michael Nau Accompany Black Vinyl Edition

All 11 tracks come together to paint a beautiful picture. The lyrics invoke the listener'simagination throughout. They're introspective, but vague and open-ended. The indierock backdrop shows signs of psych-soul influence with dry and punchy drums, lushsynth lines, and tastefully verb-soaked vocal production. Nau's vocal delivery fallssomewhere between crooning to a crowd, telling stories to a loved one, and musing tohimself.The singer-songwriter's relaxed attitude toward making records is discernible in thesound. A while back, veteran producer and engineer Adrien Olsen (The Killers, LucyDacus, Fruit Bats), approached him about recording in his Richmond, Virginia-basedstudio. He called a few old friends that consisted of several long-time collaborators andmusicians who had participated in Nau's various recording and touring efforts over theyears.Nau and the band spent five days at Montrose Recording and left with a plan to returnand finish up a few months later. "After the first session, I took a copy of the recordingswith me to overdub a few things at my spot," Michael shared. "Then, I...