Not a Drawing, by Daniel Carlson

Not a Drawing

by Daniel Carlson

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1.	Cloudy People 03:44	buy track
2.	I See You There 02:58	buy track
3.	Home 03:04	buy track
4.	All On Display 05:39	buy track
5.	Just Like Nothing 03:59	buy track
6.	Problems 02:54	buy track
7.	Everybody's Dumb About You 02:45	buy track
8.	Farther, Faster, Safer 07:35	buy track

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"Pick of the crop this month is Not A Drawing, the third offering from New York's pop psychonaut Daniel Carlson. 'Cloudy People' is the wonderful lysergic opener, lolloping slowly on the like Jeff Lynne on diazepam. Those solid shapes just beyond the dreamy, acidic haze could by Ben Folds or Grandaddy, even World Party, but the circa '67 psych is enhanced by some luscious, proggy chord voicing and changes (I See You There, Just Like Nothing). Famed producer Michael Leonhart suggested Carlson make it 'less Paul McCartney, more Pink Floyd.' He sort of achieves both on this lovely, listenable album."
- Prog Magazine

"It’s a delightful album, short and sweet. Eight songs swathed in melody, awash with wonderful keyboard sounds and guitars transformed by a Gizmotron (a device invented by Godley & Creme which allows a guitar to sound like a cello or violin). Immaculately layered, the instrumentation creates an exotic backdrop for Carlson’s fine vocals which, like the instruments is treated in all sorts of ways, the pinnacle being the variety of effects on the psychedelic weirdness of All On Display. Throughout the album there are moments of wonderment – the synthesiser warbles on Just Like Nothing, the shimmering guitar effects on I See You There and the repetitive synth motif on Everybody’s Dumb About You. The album closes on a high with Farther, Faster, Safer, a song suite which starts out in a similar fashion to Surf’s Up, a foggy paean to past times, then into a burbling synth drenched vocal bridge before ending with snatches of radio voices, all in the space of seven minutes. A wonderful close to a wonderful album."
- Americana UK

"Music that sounds like The Beatles and Air tumbling through space - melodic, psychedelic and intensely atmospheric. This album could well prove to be a future classic."
- Q Magazine

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released November 10, 2017

Daniel Carlson - vocals and assorted instruments

Produced by Daniel Carlson
Mixed by Neal Ostrovsky at M Park Studio
Mastered by Jon Astley
Cover by Nayland Blake

Recorded at Old School, Emina Sawn and No. 64, II in Amsterdam; EKWC in Oisterwijk, Scholes Street Studio in Brooklyn, and at home in the East Village of Manhattan

All songs written by Daniel Carlson, copyright 2017 Patio of Fun Music (ASCAP)

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