FALLING OFF THE LAVENDER BRIDGE
by
Lightspeed Champion

Individual tracks of Lightspeed Champion's debut album work very well by their lonesome, but when they come together it’s like a folk-pop suite, each growing naturally out of the other, and kicking a little more ass than the last. Perpetually at odds with the world around him (and the one inside him) lead singer and songwriter Devonte Hynes has a talent for clueing us into his various befuddlements with songs that are sweetly disarming, and prickly as thorns. There’s petulance in buckets, too, but what do you expect from an album inspired by Hynes’ OC fandom? (True story.) A terrific CD to get lost in.