Air Quotes' "Joey and The Whale" is a divergent pop tune with too many nuanced styles to count

AP Track Review

Air Quotes is an L.A orchestral folk collective (sort of) centered around James Mercer and Maurice Ravel and their latest Joey and The Whale is a divergent pop tune with a vast chamber pop feel melding tones that kind of feel like Mercer and Ravel are sauntering past moving musical motifs. The orchestration and big harmonies move in alt folk ways, sometimes sprinkled with sea shanty rhythms and tones that step lightly like songs from the American songbook. The nuanced styles are many and the lyrics' poetry intriguing and curiously cool.

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Robb Donker



THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM - PRESS NOTES:

Once upon a hot Tuscan sun, James Mercer and Maurice Ravel chanced upon each other from opposite sides of a quaint cobble-stoned street. 'Twas but a single glance between two strangers in the twilight, but that's all it took. Nobody would accept their love, for they were forged of two very different worlds. For years, decades, millennia, they dreamt of an existence through which their love could prosper. It wasn't until a cool October night, when Aphrodite smiled upon them. Their bodies wordlessly tangled. An endless mandala of passion.

9 months later, AIR QUOTES was born.