J.E. SUNDE – NOW I FEEL ADORED

J.E. Sunde’s sophomore LP, “Now I Feel Adored”, is the house built on the foundation of his first LP, “Shapes that Kiss the Lips of God”. This number two LP strips away the spinning complexity and peers through a clearer, but darker lens. The signature detailed weavings of melody are present, but the real feature here is in the bass guitar and vocal. Referred to as a, “bass forward” effort by Sunde himself and played by Andrew Thoreen of Har-Di-Har fame. The tracks on this LP flow from the start, a duet with Monica Martin (of Phox) on the Irish folk-type tune, “I Will Smile When I Think of You”. The essence of a kind of full minimalism and richness starts there and carries through to the end. RIYL: Leonard Cohen, Paul Simon, Elliott Smith, Nick Drake.