Oren Lavie

Add Date: January 20

Artist: Oren Lavie

Album: The Opposite Side of the Sea

Label: Blue Smile Music

Genre: Acoustic

Comments: Tel-Aviv native Oren Lavie has, to put it simply, a beautiful voice that sounds neither modern nor dated; the production on his record The Opposite Side of the Sea does little to place him firmly in any specific genre or time-period. Melodic, featuring violins and piano (in the manner similar to The Divine Comedy), each song is distinct yet linked to the others by Lavie’s pleasant vocals. As UK magazine Uncut says, “The whole is cinematic and mellow, like Nike Drake in a cheerful summer bonnet”. Impressive and unexpected-- start with tracks 1, 2, and 7.