Blog: LocalCut

She finds inspiration where she can: the Catholic Church and comic books. [FREE-SPIRIT POP] Rachel Taylor Brown has gotten used to people calling her music "weird." It doesn't really bother her anymore, even if she disagrees. "It doesn't sound that weird to me," she says from a booth at Dots Cafe, a favorite haunt near her home in Southeast Portland. "I think a lot of it is just plain listenable." And she's right: Brown's discography is packed with gems, from the otherworldly ballads of 2006's Ormolu to the key-changing choral pop of her 2001 [...]