Lefty Everybody Loves a Hero (Wish Wash Communications)

Lefty

Everybody Loves a Hero (Wish Wash Communications)

Funky electronic skiffle, Lefty is the sort of eerie, one-off project that arrives full blown from parties intent on capturing the gloomy magic of late-night noodling. This is unclassifiable, almost avant-noise rock with spooky electronic overtones, switching from manic, synthesized walls of sound to quiet, almost languid passages marked by female vocals ("Slippery"), freaky compendiums of everything-and-the kitchen-sink clamor ("Big Stomp"), and jazzy, free-form meditations on outright weirdness ("We Don't Rent Pigs"). You can't fault the locals in Lefty for the chaos inherent on this 2am tutelage in post-electronica, but whether you're going to "get it" depends entirely on your mood at the moment. The spare, clickbeep patterns of "Space Pimp" reflect the chill, rainswept October skies outside my window right now, while "My Cherie" breathily complements the cloudy Austin fall. Several tracks here might be called "Everybody Loves a Jam Session," but when Jilita Darzic and Christy Doolen's soothing, ethereal voices weave lazy spirals around Neil McKeeby's guitar wash and various synthesized components, it's not chilly, just cool.