Blog: The Line Of Best Fit

Previously leader of the New York-based experimental jazz-folk collective Wooden Wand & the Vanishing Voice, James Jackson Toth's solo debut is a lush take on alt-country informed by blues, soul and, occasionally, punk. Whereas Wooden Hand ... was very much an avant-garde concern, Waiting In Vain is comparatively conventional, meandering improv conspicuous only in its absence. No twenty minute excursions into free jazz territory here but dreamy, harmonious pop bedecked with gorgeous semi-acoustic guitar and ...