Silhouette is the first of four albums Eliot Eidelman is hoping to release in 2025, which is very impressive from someone living in a cabin in the woods. This is his eighth album; He is joined by his regular musical companion Evan Barker along with Natasha Heaszl and Tyler Nuffer.
The album opens with Dandelion Wine that feels like a lost Crosby Stills Nash & Young plaintive lust song, about a woman they meet on the road called Dandelion Wine who gives them the ride of their life, rodeo style in such a special way that she had to join the band, Tyler Nuffer's pedal steel gets to her woozy heart.
Going Down is not about a medicine show or your favourite football (Soccer) team getting relegated, this is rather laid-back country evocation of a split up, that's left you with the feeling that you will be left lying on the ground unable to move or get over her loss, no matter how many lies you told while you were together.
Coronation Song is almost in the same vein as some of Dan Stuarts latter solo work, but with an early 70's twist to how the tune sounds. I'm not sure how well the more spoken word parts of the vocals work, I prefer it when Eliot sounds like a cross between Dan Stuart and Neil Young. The lyrics can be read a few ways, but mainly it seems to be about the Coronation of the idiot King whoever you may think he is.
Swallow Bird is a Dylanesque harmonica led song, of is it hope or sorrow for having a Swallow flying into his eye, really this is all about Eliot's harmonica playing, he works out what he has to complain about, in this twisted world we live in.
Farms In Hawaii takes us on a trip back to the 70's, both in feel and lyrical content, looking at living in communes and how many of the hippies turned into techie bread heads, while sounding like he's been hanging out in Laurel Canyon vibing dreaming of what his dad got up too.
Avalanche Of Sunshine sounds like it should be about taking far too much acid, getting totally fried and staring off into space, the actual lyrics go in a different direction, searching for what's coming his way, while sitting outside drinking in all that sunshine.
California Blues is far bleaker that the rest of the album, a real downbeat slow song, that could do with a darker sounding vocalist like Sam Baker singing it, slow picking gets to the heart of all the sorrow and dread he's surrounded by.
The album closes with the title track Silhouette that almost feels like it needs an audience singing along, to this love song of sorts, everything's gone awry, the wedding dress is hanging on the wall unused, the pain and sorrow comes through, even as it sounds a bit like one of the Beach Boys worst hits, had it been fronted by Dan Stuart at his most dissolute.
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