In an alternate universe there’s a 1970’s gay Dave looking groovy in his platform shoes, white socks with the red stripe around the calf, plaid bell bottoms, velour top with a deep V-neck and gold chains enmeshing in his chest hair. He’s laying on the floor with his record player and Carole King and Joan Baez 45’s strewn around him. That gay Dave is alive and well within me today and Kris Angelis is my Joni Mitchell.
Kris’ new album, Le Sigh is folk fabulousness. It’s a little country and a little torchy, highlighting Kris’ singer-songwriter skills. Kris is modernizing 70’s folk for today. “Goodbye Captain Fantastic” is like an ode to early Elton John and “Invisible Friend” is very Carpenters-ish. The album has a quiet but theatrical vibe. It’s romantically cathartic and beautifully orchestrated, in my gay opinion. This is the album you put on when you’re wanting to belt out all your feels as you sway around your living room with your “dance partner” (better known as your broom)…or that could just be me.
Right now, 70’s gay Dave is somewhere slowly doing The Hustle late into the night while flipping his Le Sigh vinyl from side-A to side-B before crashing and patting his pet rock on the head goodnight.
