Azure Wonder & Lust is complex, samples-rich, echoey, wah-full and skittered up with instrumental comments that blow and crawl and scuttle in all directions.
This disc is not only exciting, it is singable, listenable, and crammed with dirty secrets to clog your mind’s jewelry box, like jewels crusted in garbage.
As frontman for Grant-Lee Buffalo, Phillips opened for R.E.M., Smashing Pumpkins and Pearl Jam. Phillips has the same ability to stir up the soul as they did.
If you love that hooky, “alternative” sound, you won’t be disappointed by this ultra-polished album. Yet there is still something about Michelle Branch…