St. Lenox

St. Lenox

Ten Fables of Young Ambition And Passionate Love

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Written at the cusp of his 40’s, Ten Fables Of Young Ambition And Passionate Love is St Lenox’s tribute to the tumultuous pursuits of love and professional success—a memory album in two parts capturing slices of young living from the author’s colorful past. Written, performed and recorded in off hours at night and on weekends, the author—now an attorney in midtown Manhattan—reworks two classic themes from the indie canon, with a mixture of melodic free verse, stream of consciousness, poetry and folk storytelling.“I burst into tears—big, ugly, inescapable, unbidden tears that felt like they had been stored up for ages. St. Lenox’s music has that effect … you play it and stumble into revelations, hit nerves that you may not have been ready to hit. That’s not to say it’s sad and dark and horrible. It’s just more or less like life itself, which is uncertain and plodding and often finds moments of humor emerging right alongside moments of sadness.”    —VICE / NOISEY “[Andrew] Choi’s voice is one of the most striking instruments in music today.”    —Stereogum “St. Lenox is so good and should be massively famous and revered.”    —John Darnielle

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Ten Songs About Memory And Hope / Ten Hymns From My American Gothic

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Both of St. Lenox’s albums together on a two-CD set! Ten Songs About Memory And Hope, the Anyway Records album debut of New York’s St. Lenox and Andrew Choi’s singularly thrilling mix of pop-song craftsmanship, atmospheric electro kicks, rich singing, jazz freedom, and, yes, karaoke, is rendered with charisma to burn. Energetic tracks like “I Still Dream of the ’90s” colors the recent past with current longings for flying cars, while “Just Friends,” a fluidly melodic mid-tempo ballad, insists that pop-soul lives in 2013. Ten Hymns From My American Gothic is a sprawling, layered, stream-of-consciousness portrait of modern American life, presented by Choi as a gift to his father, who immigrated to the United States, in honor of his 70th birthday. Written, performed and recorded by the writer in off-hours while working as an attorney in Manhattan, the album meditates on progressive themes, immigration, cultural divide, forgiveness and manifest destiny.

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Ten Hymns From My American Gothic

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Ten Hymns From My American Gothic is a sprawling, layered,stream-of-consciousness portrait of modern American life, presented by St. Lenox as a gift to his father, who immigrated to the United States, in honor of his 70th birthday. Written, performed and recorded by the writer in off hours, while working as an attorney in Manhattan, the album meditates on progressive themes, immigration, cultural divide, forgiveness and manifest destiny. “[St. Lenox’s] voice is one of the most striking instruments in music today, a harsh and commanding howl that reminds me of John Darnielle, Michael Stipe, and Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart but is something entirely its own. His subject matter is equally transfixing and unique, a mix of queer love songs, protest music, and savvy observations about the modern American experience.” —Stereogum

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21st Century Post-liberal Blues

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An errant single from St. Lenox, "21st Century Post-Liberal Blues" recounts modern liberal angst in an era of political upheaval and social media fatigue.

St. Lenox

Ten Songs About Memory And Hope

Anyway

Ten Songs About Memory and Hope, the Anyway Records album debut of New York’s St. Lenox, is Choi’s singularly thrilling mix of popsong craftsmanship, atmospheric electro kicks, rich singing, jazz freedom, and, yes, karaoke. All of this, rendered with charisma to burn, is precisely what you hear on an energetic St. Lenox track like “I Still Dream of the ‘90s,” which colors the recent past with current longings for flying cars, or “Just Friends,” a fluidly melodic mid-tempo ballad that insists that pop-soul lives in 2013. For St. Lenox, emotion starts, although doesn’t end, with Choi’s voice, an agile tenor with an undewy top-end glow. His voice is, at any rate, one reason why songs such as “That Old Time Religion” and “Bitter Pill” occupy a listener’s memory long after the tracks finish. - James Hunter