The Big Takeover: Philip Goth – Philip Goth (Team Love)
Josh Rawson (AKA Christmas Clapton), former bassist of folk-rockers The Felice Brothers; this debut was recorded by him in his Philmont, NY bedroom over three years while working various odd jobs. Rawson’s shadowy, languid music can be described as gothic folk, with delicately massaged guitars combined with glacial and carnivalesque synths, while his tremulous, drowsy baritone summons Scott Walker, Rufus Wainwright, and Jeremy Enigk (and, on the acoustic, recorded live “Raptors,” a groggier Elliott Smith). Perhaps inspired by renowned, erudite poet John Ashbery (1927-2017), who lived...
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