Thin Ice

THIN ICE (CD Review)

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Bruce Garnitz delivers a twelve-song tour-de-force, sliding into a variety of different 1970s-influenced styles on his latest record (and yes, he points out in the liner notes, he still calls it that even if you download these songs as MP3s). But these are all grown-up songs, many of them looking back on the past and trying to recapture feelings from another era. From combustible pop ("Rainbows In Gasoline"), flugelhorn-inflected melancholia("My Mother's Voice") psych-blues ("The Trouble is You"), straightforward radio pop ("Dear John"), Steely Danesque ballads ("Venice is Sinking"), proto-rap ("The Dead End"), to high-octane thumpers ("She Likes it When I Drive"), this is an album that will remind you of listening to a transistor radio under the covers late at night (most likely from a distant city on a signal that keeps fading in and out as the clouds move across the sky). - Alex M. Stein

Alex M. Stein is an award winning writer and filmmaker living in Los Angeles. He has devoted his entire adult life to stories and storytelling and is a mainstay of the Los Angeles storytelling community.