
This one dropped into my inbox last week and hit me completely unexpected, not least as the last thing I heard from our favorite Vermont enterprise ( no offense ) NNA Tapes was the listed creepiness of Nate Young's Stay Asleep . On top of that, the above album cover does not give you slightest hint of what will happen to your consciousness once you've hit the play button: New Hampshire native Ryan Power makes simple yet soulful, achingly honest and unashamedly beautiful avant pop that blissfully lies somewhere left of the field [...]