Boston indie singer Leah Callahan hits the ground running on her new album Our Lady of the Sad Adventure with the sprawling opener Fall in Love with your Mind, mixing shoegaze and psychedelic rock, a musical love baby conceived by the 60s and 80s. Callahan shuns the sign-posted main roads. As a long serving member of the Boston underground in bands like Turkish Delight and Betwixt before flying solo, she does not have to prove anything.
Her legacy is intact, but by adding more albums on a regular basis, she is still growing and challenging herself. The hirsute main riff of New Punk almost drowns out her vocals, but she raises to the occasion. Title track Our Lady of the Sad Adventure is smooth, but not schmaltzy, making yacht rock cool for a change by adding gnarly sounding synths as a counterpoint for the tight rhythm section./p>
The dreamy Irish Goodbye will offer some solace to people who are incapable of making a clean break and continuing a conversation that has run its course. Callahan herself is not ready to call it quits either and why should she. There is plenty more to write and sing about. As long as her creative well is overflowing with songs like these, she can continue her streak of well-rounded solo albums for many years to come.
Leah Callahan: vocals
Jeremy Fortier: viola
Ben Polito: drums
Chris Stern: guitars, bass guitar, keyboards, backing vocals, drums (track 5)
Our Lady of the Sad Adventure is a self-released album. Buy it from her website. Release date: June 1.
Tracks:- Fall in Love with your Mind
- Driving
- Devil May Care
- New Punk
- Our Lady of the Sad Adventure
- Clouds
- About You
- Irish Goodbye
- Miss Me
- I Remember
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