It was a match made in cyberspace: L.A.-based singer-songwriter AM, whose 2010 album “Future Sons & Daughters” mixed and matched soul, psych-pop and folk, and American-born, London-based composer/producer Shawn Lee, known for his soundtrack work and out-there releases on Ubiquity Records. The new collaboration — which still hasn’t been named — has spawned an album’s worth of material that darts in and out of the pop/soul/tropicalia netherworlds, with the debut track “Dark Into Light” twinkling like a star on AM’s soaring falsetto. The project started after AM was smitten upon hearing “Music and Rhythm,” the 2004 album by Shawn Lee’s Ping Pong Orchestra. He contacted Lee, with the transatlantic pair eventually trading tracks. From the Postal Service to Broken Bells, songwriter/producer pop collaborations have yielded some pretty special material; this could be the next one.
||| Download: “Dark Into Light”
||| Live: AM & Shawn Lee debut their material live on March 7 at the Hotel Cafe.
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Can’t stop listening to this song. Come to Montreal with this album. :)
Love it. Puts me in a great mood. Very KCRW to me, anyone else agree? Hotel Cafe here I come :)
this is amazing. where have these guys been hiding?
This is very KCRW. Love the voice and soul feel. Can’t wait for the Hotel Cafe show.
Kind of reminds me of Radiohead. Can’t wait to hear the rest of the album.
I love it! Especially the chorus.. The tech/pop mixed instrumentals mixed with the soulful sound of AM’s vocals makes for a magical sound. Amazing!