French guitarist and violinist Naïm Amor is blessed with the dexterity to play fast and slow effortlessly. Add a knack to write memorable melodies that sounds both fresh and instantly familiar and you have a hard time to find fault with his new album Stories. He lets the instruments do the talking. As an an in-demand film scorer he can tell a tale without using hardly any words. Ry Cooder, Link Wray and Hank B. Marvin can all be traced back as major influences. Some of it is quite polished, but Amor throwns some rougher sounds as well as a means for tension and release.
Stories is blissful and wistful. Amor appears to searching for something that has gone missing in his personal life and by doing so he created a record that should be enjoyed as a whole. The moods change ever so slightly and there might some sort of Hollywood ending in the cards, but the ambiguity is far more interesting than a straightdforward predictable narrative that would ruin it all.
Stories will be released via Fort Lowell Records (orange vinyl, digital). The album is available for pre-order here. Release date: July 26th.
Tracks:- Amorsonic
- The Start Over
- Downtown Scene
- Abusive Chaos
- September Escapade
- Home
- Freeway Race
- The Last Dance
- Santa Rita Park West
