SPILL ALBUM REVIEW: STEPHEN BECKER – GRAVITY BLANKET

STEPHEN BECKER
GRAVITY BLANKET
ONE IS THREE RECORDS

Avid readers of Spill magazine have probably noticed that NYC’s Stephen Becker is one of the frequent artists you can meet here. His brand of so-called bedroom pop has that quirkiness and inexplicable charm that only the likes of R. Stevie Moore and, well, Stephen Becker and a few others can muster recently.

When you are as prolific as Becker is, it is often hard to keep consistency in the quality of your music, but judging by Gravity Blanket, his latest, Becker hasn’t encountered that problem yet.

This time around it might be the fact that Becker has perfected his production skills, self-produced this album and found that elusive perfect ground that gives bedroom pop that exact fidelity it needs – somewhere between that unkempt bedroom and pristine, dust-free studio.

Of course, all that would be for nothing if Becker’s songwriting is slacking here, but, fortunately, he seems to have taken it a few steps further the upscale.

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