Mike Andrews Hand on String
I recently pick up Mike Andrews Hand on a String, which is a pretty album done almost entirely by Mr. Andrews, a creator after my own heart in that way (there are several credits but few). Mr. Andrews composed music for the cult hit Donnie Darko and Freaks and Geeks. This fresh debut album reflects a quiet inner world filled with lingering moments of beauty in time with poignant pangs of hazy nostalgia. His music meanders the way one’s mind works, the inner tickings of the clock in his vision wending their ways out; I am reminded of perfect sketches… the creative process, how one arrives at a song, these signals embedded like tapestries in my favorite passages like a puzzle. There is a pairing of inner narrative as a melody will wind itself around elegant longing, a confluence of emotion and technical precision. Mr. Andrews makes with a quiet and settling poetic power that cannot often be seen in today’s mosh pit of the contemporary music market. To say that Mr. Andrews is under the radar in this respect would be an understatement; he is positively subterranean, or perhaps not of this planet, and herein lies a uniqueness that makes me a fan.
Several months later my arguments remain the same. This gentleman’s best sound is a recipe for the serious art maker wanting to spin his thoughts to the next level. Mr. Andrews music is built for the crafting intellect, and ought to be marked in time as one of the few to watch in this rarified market of intelligent music.
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