KEXP Presents: Robert Ellis (solo) w/ Mike Giacolino

Recorded live to tape in just two days, Robert Elliss exquisite new album, Yesterdays News, is as stripped-down as it gets, with the celebrated songwriter and producers delicate, reedy tenor accompanied only by nylon string guitar, upright bass, and the occasional piece of handheld percussion. The arrangements are harmonically sophisticated here, drawing on the open tunings and intricate fingerpicking of English songwriters like Nick Drake or Richard Thompson, and Elliss performances are similar...