Shaylee's latest album more than builds on the previous two and reveals the full scope of the Portland Oregon multi instrumentalist's range. Elle Archer, for Shaylee is she, offers up a masterful range of styles without ever losing her established cred.
Both the debut, Bring It Out Of Me and the follow up, The Life & Misadventures of Shaylee & Tarantula are great, but far more Indie sounding than this new album, probably due to the production and mastering. The latter had big hints of Power Pop. Both are available at Name Your Price On Bandcamp.
Short-Sighted Security is a much bigger sounding affair and the variety shows an incredible maturity. Lyrically, it is very much about lessons learned, but musically it ventures into many areas. It is as though everything done previously has provided the route to this, both musically and in life.
The stand out song is probably Ophelia, a sassy sounding offering that builds into a psych interlude and then breaks out into a splendid instrumental close. But elsewhere is just as ace and much different. Health is almost Garage Power Pop, Turned Inside us edges towards Americana.
Save Up is a melancholic sounding masterpiece that builds and builds and Please Talk To Me has an incredible Guitar sound that breaks into a massive solo, it is a wonderful listen. Stranded Living Room borders on new age Celtic, think Enya.
There are big hints of Country that enhance the Guitar Pop and Soft Rock on what is an incredibly adept album. Away from the fact that Archer cannot be described as Indie any longer, the other take is what a guitarist she is. I expected the album to be good, I didn't expect it to be this great. Highly Recommended!
You can listen to and buy the album here.
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