Is that the ghost of Love’s Arthur Lee moving in the poetic, lullingly melodic “Evaporating Days,” which appears in two versions on Brian Drow’s album. The Milwaukee musician-songwriter and friends have produced a charmingly real-sounding lot of songs. It’s as if they gathered together in Drow’s living room, pushed record and played.
Some of Drow’s songs come from a late-‘60s singer-songwriter background, especially the already seen-it-all lyric of “Traversing Time Blues” and the protest folk of “Truth/Lie,” addressed to an American citizenry resolutely standing against their own interests, drunk from Fox News falsehood. “Topical Rant” rocks angrily, jeering at “Trumpty-Dumpty,” while “Island” sounds a little like The Police but with psychedelic era harmonies. The contents of Acoustic Electric Artistic Eclectic live up the album’s title.
