Burnt Sugar the two sided dreamy mirror of "Delicate Man"

 

"can we still behave / like the fools that we became / tell me what'll I do..."

"Delicate Man" by Burnt Sugar, the musical moniker of New Orleans musicians, Spencer Nessel and Mac Folger (from Lawn) with added assistance from Nick Corson and Duncan Troast (Video Age and Convenience), is a genre blended crooner. Moving along with light jazz tones, faint country and western noir gallops, doo wop atmospheres, lounge pop moved via an utterly compelling guiro propelled rhythm (the use of the guiro is everything here) as a gorgeously made bed for Nessel to lay his vocals in is as sweet as the black and white cookies at Canter's Deli in L.A. 

Now the black and white or ying yang reference is purposeful because in some ways as I listen, this song that "pokes fun at anxiety" and follows "a sensitive and anxiety riddled man who over-explains" is like a coin flip. "Delicate Man" feels sort of sultry surreal and those ambient flashes of oddness makes it perfect as a song in a kind of David Lynch vehicle as much as it could be perfectly normal and adorable, if you know what I mean. 

That duality makes it even more interesting. 

-Robb Donker Curtius

THE FACTS AS WE KNOW THEM 

https://www.instagram.com/burntsugarband/

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2MJt6feZQE8v050MmVaO87


New Orleans musicians, Spencer Nessel and Mac Folger (Lawn). Pop songs dressed up and down. Next single coming out July 7.

Burnt Sugar, jangle pop, indie rock, tropical pop, alt pop, lounge pop, alt rock, New Orleans, Spencer Nessel and Mac Folger, "Delicate Man",