Sugar Glider
‘Steal Your
Heart’
Self-released
Rochester folk quartet
Sugar Glider’s debut full-length album, “Steal Your Heart,” is like
an intimate backwoods bonfire with close friends gathered round joined in song.
Utilizing the reverberating acoustics of the South Wedge Mission, the album
features the core group of vocalist-banjoist Alison Lindsey, singer-guitarist
Roxy Elahi, guitarist Zach Kochan, and Ryan Yarmel on bass and autoharp, along
with producer Ben Morey on percussion and saw.
Songs like “For
a Friend” and “Get Out” are languid and melancholic, while
“Pulling Tongues” and “Spiders” offer more upbeat
fingerpicking. Atmospheric timbres are combined with heavy roots-folk
composition and lyrical references to nature as metaphors for
everyday life. With Lindsey and Elahi singing their signature synced harmonies,
Sugar Glider can bring tears to your eyes, and then dry them with its somberly
swaying lullabies.
This article appears in Sep 4-10, 2019.
