andrew combs ideal man

Andrew Combs (from the album Ideal Man available on New West Records)
Andrew Combs let his muse pick up the paintbrush rather than his trusty pen when he and his wife were waiting for the birth of their daughter in 2017. Painting taught the musician a new process as he layered and scraped paint from canvas. For his recent release, Ideal Man, he made use of the technique for his songwriting, staring with an emotion rather than a concept, the words and music the method of coloring the tale, framing the mood. Notes are dabbled with an impressionist’s brush when Andrew Combs speaks of floating “Like a Feather” on an ever-expanding melody as instrumentation is added seamlessly to create a bigger picture. Light notes are picked from guitar and piano to lay a path for “Golden” as Ideal Man strays down a nightmarish soundscape of distorted chords and sharp-angled beats with “Dry Eyes” while Andrew Combs drifts on dreamily echoed sonics for the lessons learned from “The Stone” and lets a last drink blur the dangers of “Firestarter”.
Ideal Man was recorded live in producer Sam Cohen’s Brooklyn, New York studio, the sound captured fresh, clearly showing dark clouds in the beat that overshadow the jangle and Pop in “Born Without a Clue” as Andrew Combs follows a heartbeat drum textured with moody Jazz tones playing “Hide and Seek”. Andrews Combs wears different skin in the title track as its rhythms rumble underneath like subway trains while Ideal Man dances to an apocalyptic tune on a skittery beat for “Save Somebody Else” and ponders mortality on the sway of “The Shipwreck Man”.
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