Acoustic Sessions
Album | The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger
Sean Lennon’s eccentric art-folk duo
Each of the Fab Four had offspring who made their own musical claim--Dhani Harrison, James McCartney, Zak Starkey, Julian Lennon, and his half-brother Sean -- but time has revealed the younger Lennon to be the most intriguing artist. After distinguishing himself on three fine solo albums, Sean Lennon has ventured into his most fruitful artistic territory to date with The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger. In this duo with his girlfriend, the waif-like, much younger model Charlotte Kemp Muhl (Hey, the guy’s a rock star by birthright, what do you expect?), Lennon explores a colorful, captivatingly idiosyncratic musical path. As the title of the pair’s debut album implies, this is a sparsely arranged, acoustic outing, based around Lennon and Muhl’s voices and Lennon’s guitar, with extremely judicious additions here and there, but the songs themselves are anything but spartan in nature: they teem with serpentine melodies, unexpected twists, and complex but never unwieldy song structures. Still, the light touch of the production keeps things accessible no matter how many left turns the tunes take. The influence of Sean’s father is discernible, but not dominant: if anything, this eccentric art-folk outing is a closer spiritual kin to, say, Joanna Newsom’s work.
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