SF's Ebb and Flow make a backhandedly progressive brand of indie pop--it's so catchy, you might not spot the avant-garde. Sam Tsitrin's other project is similarly inclined, if a bit looser. Country-folk guitars and wry lyrics gradually get spun into something noir.
3 masters o_ pop get together under se_eral roo_s of untrustworthy material and create a story o_ my li_e. Sam Tsitrin (_rom the San _rancisco art-prog trio the Ebb and Flow), Dmitry Ishenko (prominent jazz bassist _rom NYC) and Christopher Cline as engineer and sometime drummer (_rom Scrabbel) 3 days later WE IS SHORE DEDICATED is pronounced.
This Album of 11 songs includes dark pleas for love and forgiveness, bright shout-outs to the venomous enemies, and a total eclipse of the abstract sun, riding shark-like razor jazzmasters and baba yaga's wooden double bass.