All Smiles - Ten Readings of a Warning
Reviewed by jonathan
Listen to All Smiles Ten Readings of a Warning and you’ll be, well...all smiles. After Grandaddy broke up, guitarist Jim Fairchild set up shop in Chicago and worked on some low-key indie-folk tunes, doing most all the instruments and recording vocals. With the help of Joe Plummer of Modest Mouse, Janet Weiss of the now defunct Sleater-Kinney, and Solon Bixler of Great Northern, he’s compiled a worthy effort and the result is chock full of classy tunes. “Pile of Burning Leaves” is a quiet smoldering tune and “Of Course It’s Not Up To Me” has a strong emotional core of simple piano and vocals with instrumentation that makes its self known as the song story grows. Perhaps they’ll be some strong sales, (particularly since they’ve been touring with indie favs Menomena) and that’ll, well, make Fairchild and the gang all smiles. [www.myspace.com]