If you're like us, you might be slightly taken aback by Brooklyn alt-pop songwriter Lara May Meyerratkin, AKA El May , and her delightfully cryptic self-titled debut album (January 19). The loose lo-fi atmosphere, left-of-center song structures and her occasionally unvarnished, understated vocals are deceptive on the surface as the tracks, in the course of just a minute here or there, reveal themselves as deeper, distinctive and completely original approaches to modern indie pop. Meyerratkin, who began her musical career as lovable, idiosyncratic popster Ben Lee's on-stage instrumentalist, brings much of Lee's shaggy charm to her own sharp, engaging [...]
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