Air Quotes and the orchestrated waltz of "Traveling Hero"

 

"Free like a flag and alone on a train"

Listen to Air Quotes in general and specifically to their latest "Traveling Hero" and you might sit up straighter. You might feel a bit more erudite. Your social banter might somehow move from the movie "I Care A lot" to "Citizen Kane" (The Criterion Edition, of course), or maybe not. There is something absolutely wonderful about Air Quotes aesthetic, their propensity to create music that is best served with beautifully stirring orchestration. The static waltz of "Traveling Hero" that is "a song about reinventing yourself instead of facing yourself" is exquisitely alluring and engaging.  Michelle Saddic's vocal performance stir up melodies that are, at once, self effacing but enticing with charm and smarts. The band's take on their art, their rhapsodies do feel like they are from another era in blue, part George Gershwin, part Marian McPartland. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

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John Williams in the streets, Win Butler in the sheets.

Air Quotes, indie rock, chamber pop, orchestrations, acoustic music, whimsical, cultured pop, "Traveling Hero", Los Angeles