event Grant Lee Phillips

There’s an enduring sweetness in Grant Lee Phillips' voice that by all accounts should have faded away by now. The Californian singer-songwriter had a lot of stops and starts early on in his career before striking it out solo. Shiva Burlesque, one of his earliest groups, was marginalized by LA’s glam-metal scene despite releasing two solid albums; the very Neil Young-influenced Grant Lee Buffalo, which lasted most of the ‘90s, also fizzled out after failing to find an audience despite glowing critical reception. This decade has been somewhat kinder to him as a solo artist, and Phillips is writing some of his most inspired material to date on the new Little Moon. It toes the line between spacey American and straight-ahead pop that simply deserves to be heard.

There’s an enduring sweetness in Grant Lee Phillips' voice that by all accounts should have faded away by now. The Californian singer-songwriter had a lot of stops and starts early on in his career before striking it out solo. Shiva Burlesque, one of his earliest groups, was marginalized by LA’s glam-metal scene despite releasing two solid albums; the very Neil Young-influenced Grant Lee Buffalo, which lasted most of the ‘90s, also fizzled out after failing to find an audience despite glowing critical reception. This decade has been somewhat kinder to him as a solo artist, and Phillips is writing some of his most inspired material to date on the new Little Moon. It toes the line between spacey American and straight-ahead pop that simply deserves to be heard.