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Pete Yorn
Also Playing: Serena Ryder
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Sat Dec 5
9 pm
Pete Yorn and Serena Ryder at Fox Theatre
His hungry, heartfelt 2001 debut, Musicforthemorningafter, had some comparing singer-songwriter Pete Yorn to Bruce Springsteen, but a string of increasingly rote albums in between drew an even more damning analogy: a poor man’s Ryan Adams—talented, prolific, and given to experimental curveballs, but ultimately lacking much personality. His latest, Back And Fourth, fares a little better thanks to Bright Eyes producer Mike Mogis, who adds some appropriately elegiac strings and pianos to Yorn’s yearning sound. Break Up, his Brigitte Bardot/Serge Gainsbourg-inspired duet album with Scarlett Johansson, necessitated a total re-evaluation of Yorn, an artist with many more faces yet to be revealed.
Fox Theatre 1135 13th St, Denver/Boulder, CO
His hungry, heartfelt 2001 debut, Musicforthemorningafter, had some comparing singer-songwriter Pete Yorn to Bruce Springsteen, but a string of increasingly rote albums in between drew an even more damning analogy: a poor man’s Ryan Adams—talented, prolific, and given to experimental curveballs, but ultimately lacking much personality. His latest, Back And Fourth, fares a little better thanks to Bright Eyes producer Mike Mogis, who adds some appropriately elegiac strings and pianos to Yorn’s yearning sound. Break Up, his Brigitte Bardot/Serge Gainsbourg-inspired duet album with Scarlett Johansson, necessitated a total re-evaluation of Yorn, an artist with many more faces yet to be revealed.
Updated 02/09/2011
