Double Exposure

Serious music fans who catch onto largely unknown musical talents long before they break commercially are continually frustrated by Kelley Stoltz’s relative obscurity. He's released albums on the respected label Sub Pop (Nirvana, Postal Service), and now he's put out Double Exposure on Jack White’s Third Man Records label. Even Stoltz’s brilliantly novel idea to record his own version of Echo & The Bunnymen’s classic Crocodiles album, track by track, did little to raise his profile, outside of becoming a producer for a great band like The Mantles. Recorded in Stoltz’s Electric Duck garage studio, Double Exposure is yet another weird-but-worthy addition to his catalog of psychedelic pop-rock. The nine-minute “Inside My Head” channels a garage-motorik groove where a melodic guitar-sitar riff leads from a mid-'60s pop song to a love-in jam and back without wearing out its welcome. “Marcy” evokes an evening walk in 1966 with spring in the air. “Summertime” turns mystic, with reverb and organ darkening the feel of yet another beautifully nostalgic tale.