Miles Kurosky The Desert of Shallow Effects

After splitting with Beulah six years ago, singer and songwriter Miles Kurosky is going it solo for the first time on The Desert of Shallow Effects. Although, he's hardly alone on the album. It took nearly two dozen other musicians to help Kurosky put this album together. And he couldn't quite leave his old band totally behind, since ex-Beulah member Eli Crews engineered the album. On it, Kurosky gives us the 60's-style pop we'd expect from him, but he's not exactly trying to go home again. These songs have a new restlessness, with quick shifts, tempo changes and off-kilter cuts, making up for lost time with songs full of new ideas and sounds we've never heard from Kurosky before.

Abstract by Matthew Fiander