She drives me crazy
Like no one else
She drives me crazy
And I can’t help myself
Remember the Fine Young Cannibals and the sound of lead singer Roland Gift’s voice? It was a soulful falsetto that seemed to come from the back of his throat. It’s fun to try imitate, fun to pass off as 80’s pop pulp, but incessantly memorable.
Now take that back-of-the-throat falsetto, lend it to a singer-songwriter sound, and you start to get the picture of Jesse Payne. Earnest, atmospheric, and a tad bit twangy, Payne’s Nesting (nationally released in November) features Payne’s incessantly memorable voice over rich folk-influenced rock. Strongest here are “Scripting Carolina” with its driving rhymthics, the bluesy hints of “Conversations,” and the enigmatic, finger-picking “Wes Anderson.”
