Thee Holy Brothers

★★★

My Name Is Sparkle REGIONAL. DL

The debut album by LA veterans Marvin Etzioni and Willie Aron is an odd little outlier, funny and serious, holy and secular, ambitious and cool, with guitar, mandolin and lushly layered vocals. There’s a mix of styles – folk (If God Let Go); hymn (Keep Crushing Me); country (Let The Great World Spin); early Costello (Elvis In Jerusalem); even solo Lennon. While the grand, grownup psych-folk title track seems to suggest a hippy, Tommy-esque musical directed by Leonard Cohen. SS