The Armoires
Zibaldone
Big Stir Records
Coming on the heel of the delightful EP Third Side, which featured a great cover of The New Pornographers' “The Laws Have Changed,” comes the Armoires' second full length album, Zibaldone.
Musically it’s a sprawling mix of influences, including The New Pornographers and Game Theory. The way it holds together for me, in tone and form, just snatches of music and lyrics reminds me of The Nields. Lyrically everyone from Michael Stipe to Bonnie Raitt is name-checked, in really fun and interesting ways, Raitt in particular, as she’s mentioned on “When We Were In England (And You Were Dead).”
Even when wry, for instance “(How Did You Make) A Mistake Like Me,” the gentle positivity is also worthy of the Nields. These two sentiments run throughout the album. Combine that with music that is off-kilter in all the best ways, and you have an album that is a whole world. And what a world it is! This is an album to sink into and get lost in. It’s that much fun, and well worth the time spent traveling in it.
Andrea Weiss
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