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Jason Falkner

Singer/songwriter Jason Falkner is probably known best for his role in power popsters Jellyfish and the shortly lived Grays, but he's been a steady figure in the pop scene for years. Falkner, a multi-instrumentalist and recording studio whiz, has spent the last couple of years working with other well-known musicians, the likes of whom include Air, Brendan Benson, The Lilys, and Eric Matthews for starters. Thusly, he hasn't had a proper album of new material since 1999 or thereabouts. However, Falkner's previous works contain top-notch songwriting with smart pop melodies and cunningly clever hooks.

The rollicking kiss-off and crunchy guitars of "Author Unknown" and quiet majesty in the swelling strings and chorus of voices in "The Plan" are up there with anything Matthew Sweet's ever pulled out of his back pocket. And the surprisingly gentle and sweet "She Goes to Bed" holds its own in the pop canon sitting next to McCartney, Fountains of Wayne, and the like. Falkner's earliest influences include the Zombies and the Kinks and we the audience can pretty much extrapolate from there; his melodies worm their way into your brain and refuse to leave. He'll be playing with a full band at SXSW this year, and I, for one, am very excited since he rarely plays outside California.

Jason Falkner - Author Unknown
Jason Falkner - The Plan
Jason Falkner - She Goes To Bed
Jason Falkner - I Live

Jason Falkner fan site. Jason Falkner on the iTunes Music Store. Buy Author Unknown and Can You Still Feel? from Amazon.

Posted by Queen of the Front Row at 02.11.05 at 1:02 PM

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