"ESSENTIAL," The Equal Ground gives "I'm ALready Crying," 4.5 out of 5!

Bringing to mind "...the under-appreciated desert rock of bands like Calexico or Howe Gelb's Giant Sand."

Art Of Flying I'm Already Crying throatculture; 2014 4.5 out of 5 By J Simpson

David Costanza and Anne Speroni, together with a revolving cast of musicians under the banner Art Of Flying, deal in oppositions: pop/folk + experimentation, archaic and entirely of the moment. Art Of Flying doesn't bother labeling themselves, getting down to the business of writing songs, leaving the naming to the journalistic punters, which keeps them below the musical radar. As the era of genre-identification surpasses its zenith, the time is rife for a new appreciation of Art Of Flying, which the excellent Italian music magazine called "the best-kept secret in American music of the new century." Their album I'm Already Crying fluctuates between song-based pop psychedelia, which brings to mind Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, in all its Wind In The Willows-swept pastoral oddity, and atmospheric interludes, utterly gorgeous moments of sparkling guitars and piano minimalism. The mixture prevents the record from being too one-note, preventing the psychedelia from becoming cloying and saccharine but the "songs" make I'm Already Crying tangible, relatable and memorable. I'm Already Crying bears the tag "home recording;” don't let this mislead you! If I had a studio like this in my home, I would leave less often than I already do. The album was recorded in Art Of Flying's The Barn Recorder in Questa, NM, where they were formerly based. The album was recorded onto 2" tape (which is really thick and detailed, in case you didn't know), and mixed through a classic analog pre-amps and a mixing desk that was originally built for Abbey Road! The harmonic distortion of the analog tape rounds off the edges, making them as soft, glowing, and lovely as a Monet landscape.

Read the rest of the review here: THE EQUAL GROUND.