Fran - A Private Picture (Compact Disc)

Fran - A Private Picture (Compact Disc)The trick is to make a confession entertaining. A Private Picture, the debut album by Chicagos Fran, delivers a collection of extremely personal experiences that have been distilled and abstracted to the point that you can see yourself in their imagery, find analogs to your own emotional history in their scenarios when you hear them, its a conversation. Its therapy, if therapy was allowed to turn you on and make you shake what you got. At its core,

wasn’t going to be an easy task

The Talk Talk inspired pean to isolation “Way Out” features a moody saxophone

It’s a treasure trove of playful grooves and zigzag riffs

Cymande solidified their place in music history

coincidence

Timbaland cameo

a type of unserious transcendence found through the swirl of bodies melting into one another in the passion of dance

without breaching the gap between the self and the destabilizing chaos of the world beyond

dinger and rother tried to rekindle the flame that was neu

whose characteristically wry voice shifts from detached to decisive to distressed

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Mordechai features vocals prominently on nearly every song