From Brown to Blonde to Black $1.96

About From Brown to Blonde to Black

Kris Wolfe’s “From Brown to Blonde to Black” is a love-letter to 1960s pop, a kaleidoscopic collage of recycled, reimagined sounds that breathe new, albeit asthmatic life into a musical world that once was. Imagining himself to be the 5th Beatle (or the 7th if you count Pete Best and Stu Sutcliffe) Wolfe loads the Fab Four’s back-catalog into a food processor along with the collective works of the Zombies, the Kinks, the Association, and the Beach Boys. The resulting puree is a purist’s nightmare that spans genres and generations alike. Wolfe’s voice is androgynous (Fans of the late Jeff Hanson take note), and will inspire the love-it-or-hate-it reaction that is usually reserved for quirky cult artists whose sound is decidedly off-plumb. Singer-songwriter Chad Thomas Johnston curates as producer, co-writer, and multi-instrumentalist on the album, and the result is a record that is as down-to-earth as its influences, but playful and strange enough to appeal to Of Montreal fans.