Liz Cooper Details

Liz Cooper grew up listening to her share of classic rock. While the influences of The Allman Brothers Band and the Grateful Dead are likely to be indirect, there's an "Attics of My Life" musical quality to songs like Cooper's "Kaleidoscope Eyes," a breezy, pensive look into the "cracks of my mind." "Hey Man" is a full on rocker, "Mountain Man" grabs hold of ethereal harmonies a la Fleet Foxes, and "The Night" sways with a magical lilt, and a gorgeous violin solo by Emily Kohavi. But if I were to draw a line from Window Flowers to any period of rock and roll, it would be that of the Paisley Underground and bands like The Dream Syndicate, where beautiful and languid psychedelia met moody folk and rock based songs. Cooper taps into this and more on her debut, wrapping her reverbed vocals in swirling, warm echoes of sound and nuanced musical lushness thanks to the addition of keyboards, pedal steel, a glockenspiel here and a banjo there.