
There's been a dearth of Jon Brion-affiliated chamber-pop in recent years, following the mini-renaissance of the early '00s that kicked off with Fiona Apple's 1999 When The Pawn and Aimee Mann's Magnolia . With co-production from frequent Brion collaborator Tom Biller , Vincent Minor fills the gap nicely. Along the lines of Badly Drawn Boy's About A Boy soundtrack or Rufus Wainwright's Poses , Minor's Born In The Wrong Era EP satisfies all the expected adjectives - clever, quirky, tuneful - with its piano-based pop, missing only the towering [...]