THE LITTLE UNSAID

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Fable CARBON MOON RECORDS Third album as a four-piece speaks volumes. Whether it’s on the bubbling funk intro to the title song, which sounds like a Gil Scott-Heron out-take, or the Eno-esque murmurings of Wake Up Call, The Little Unsaid’s third is a slippery fish, evading the nets of genres. With vocals alternating between songwriter/producer John Elliott and synth player Mariya Brachkova, it shifts moods and momentum with elusive guile. Born from long improvs, it catches the essence of today’s anxiety overload but rarely sacrifices innate warmth. Perhaps their nearest siblings would be Modern Studies, in that both outfits infuse rootsy folk with flickers of more glamorous art-rock tropes, marrying dramatics and functionality. Vibrant Life uses an avalanche of tumbling spoken-word as an assault on the senses; its closing cacophony…

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