All This Could Kill You, by Ben & Vesper (CD on Sounds Familyre)

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All This Could Kill You is a fiercely beautiful and mysterious collaboration between husband and wife, Ben + Vesper, and their cast of siblings & friends. Produced and recorded by Daniel Smith (Danielson), this 13-song album smartly navigates through wildly disparate genres and styles and lands squarely in the ranks of good music that you simply cannot be without. If Ben + Vesper must be classified, one could parse it as such: 1/3 English Country Lane, 1/3 Croonsville, 1/16th Motown, 1/32 Brazilian Psychodelialand, 1/32 Dark Mythic Forest. This is music that innocently holds hands with innovation and accessibility. The low hum resonance of Ben's voice floats and falls through one gorgeous melody after another, while Vesper effortlessly breathes every harmony like a shining maiden from the nether world. Every song offers instrumentation that is wonderfully diverse and concise derived from a team of formidable players, some well known, and some who are bound to be. Sufjan Stevens quietly sits on the floor with his banjo, woodwinds, vocals and piano while drummer, David Smith (Danielson), punches each song into its full dance floor potential. Daniel and his wife Elin sing and whistle and snap and knit. But the manic men behind the curtain are Ben's older brother Josh and Ben's lifelong friend Chris Weisman. Together, they worked tirelessly to forge the backdrop of sound that has you edging ever closer to your speakers. Their arrangements are fine tuned in their complexities, yet breathe the air of improvisation that reference the hardship and playfulness of life while flatly condemning the cold claws of irony that have gripped so much independent music today. All This Could Kill You is an album that is 100% human and still winsome to the masses.  "In an era heavy-laden with singleness (as the latest statistics boast), Ben + Vesper's beautiful, oddball musicology is a refreshing thesis for marriage without pandering to all the naive notions of matrimony. “In Ben + Vesper's songs, the standard domestic life begins to feel as grotesque as a Bukowski poem, just without all the profanities. " -Sufjan Stevens. "Ben's abstract yet emotive songs have been an inspiration to me since I was in the 5th grade. Listening to the new album, I feel like I'm at the Omni Theater and the Stampers are floating next to a rock face. Playful but never brash, "All this Could Kill You" graciously welcomes a wide listenership." -Kurt Weisman of Feathers

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