If Ben Folds tried to imitate Freddie Mercury while covering XTC as Jeff Lynne's production crew fiddled with the knobs...you get the idea. Brooklyn's Scary doesn't compromise a single influence in his piano-based pop offerings, issuing mad generational mashes that have strong melodies in common.
Recorded alone in his Brooklyn apartment, this debut release from 23 year old pop impresario Bryan Scary will leave you incapable of ever calling another record "the bee's knees." The man descends and deftly navigates a smashing smorgasbord of 60's psychedelia, glam rock, chamber pop, and musical theatre, rightfully earning comparisons to late-period Beatles, ELO, XTC, The Kinks, Queen, and dare I say it, the Goblin King himself. Bryan Scary may be from another planet, but the chops and confidence displayed on The Shredding Tears prove that this world is already his and we just live in it. Don't believe me? Just wait until you see his live show. It made me feel utterly insignificant.