Premiere: Auditorium, ‘My Grandfather Could Make the World Dance’

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auditoriumIt’s been almost three years since Auditorium’s last release — 2012’s “Nights Worth Living” EP, which followed the 2011 full-length “Be Brave.” Suffice to say Spencer Berger has lost none of the golden-throated splendor that made those releases so distinctive. A Queens native who from age 9 to 12 sang in the Metropolitan Opera, logging stage time with the likes of Luciano Pavarotti and Placido Domingo, Berger performs all vocals and instruments on Auditorium’s recordings himself. His sophisticated self-harmonizing has few peers in the indie-pop world, and with his largely straightforward instrumentation, as on the new single “My Grandfather Could Make the World Dance,” Auditorium conjures up a certain acoustic majesty, or perhaps a stripped-down Queen. Of the new single, Berger says it was written “with some very specific childhood memories” in mind. It’s part a new full-length for which the singer-songwriter has not nailed down release plans. Meanwhile, do not try this in the shower at home.

||| Download: “My Grandfather Could Make the World Dance”