Kevin Bronson on March 21st, 2012

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The vivid orchestral brushstrokes on Little Red Lung’s self-titled EP (released this week) are like a watercolor in motion one moment, and an Edvard Munch come to life the next. At the center of the quartet’s serpentine arrangements – augmented by cello, violin, euphonium, trombone, vibes and other percussion – is singer-keyboardist Zoe-Ruth Erwin, an enchantress armed with dark imagery and a dramatic sense of wielding it. The core group, which includes guitarist Ali Nikou, bassist Rob Hume and drummer Nathan Kondor, has been cultivating an album’s worth of songs for over a year, but with Nikou handling production, the EP’s half-dozen (including standout tracks “Ink Blot” and “Rare Bird”) are now fully realized. Haunting, in a seductive sort of way.

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