Lace Curtains' new LP "A Signed Piece of Paper" is Michael Coomers' manic, everyman poetry smashed delicately against an art-school interpretation of soul music. It's not only beautiful it's also beautifully heart-breaking. It's second by second chooglin for hooks and exasperated exhales emit flashes of brilliance...like sitting on a breezy, Midwest front porch on an overcast Sunday morning.
When Coomers' voice cracks in "Pink & Gold" it cuts into deep muscle tissue and never lets go and only minutes later the listener is thrown into an even MORE beautiful and Lennon-esque tune "Be Good" which feels like a continuation (possibly a more contemplative and lethargic one) of "Police Brutality" (the finest track from Lace Curtains' first album "The Garden of Joy and Well of Loneliness")
A Signed Piece of Paper isn't as instantly accessible as Garden of Joy but it's just as vital and important and without a doubt an arm's length more mature. Michael Coomers executes upon a real appreciation of aesthetics and fragility that makes a Signed Piece of Paper emote an honest & sensitive understanding of an examined life. The languishing time where his characters trade in the sadness of youth for something equally sad with clarity of foresight making it the Lace Curtains "morning after" record. A place filled with longing, sorrow and the spaces between the silence.
A Signed Piece of Paper is an amazing piece of work that quietly struts at the speed of memories and speaks of even greater things to come. This is Lace Curtains second act and it's nearly perfect-just as it should be.
-William Chaffin
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