This is how a lot of great artists sound when making their start: by turns bizarre and untidy, earnest and direct, down home and downtown and somehow seamless in sewing it all up into a single sound. Think of Beck on K Records (One Foot in the Grave), Vic Chesnutt, Gord Gano (of Violent Femmes) or Chad VanGaalen.
On this full-length, Automatic, bringing together a couple different EPs, Stacy Lloyd Brown has an imagination for the strange collage of scenes and feelings produced by the world. He comes across more clearly than Beck because he’ll simply query what it means to be, and how one lives a good and right life. Lloyd Brown’s voice, which sounds so much like Gano’s at times, makes listening a joy...
---Sean Flinn, THE COAST
hey stacy. was a delight to get to see you play and hear your music last night. i'm listening to your cd right now and loving it. all the best on the rest of the tour. -susanna