Michael Penn

Acoustic guitars and drum machines make strange bedfellows. Usually reserved only for
crude early demo tapes, the stringed instrument's warm, wooden sound seems at odds
with the percussion's cold, computerized rhythms. On Michael Penn's remarkable debut
album, however, the unholy matrimony between natural strumming and high-tech
drumming results in a union that pays homage to old folk-rock formulas while de... More >