Kelly Stoltz @ The Corner Hotel
Circular Sounds is the fourth LP from San Francisco’s home recording auteur Kelley Stoltz. Circular Sounds is very much a pop record, in the classic ’60s mold. Just listen to first single “Your Reverie”: a glorious, garage-psych rocker that winks a dilated eye at XTC’s faux-retro alter ego The Dukes of Stratosphear. The untrained ear would be hard pushed to tell that this was not the work of a band. However, as before, Kelley recorded the basic tracks at home alone, with minimal overdubs added later in a studio by good friends Shayde Sartin (Skygreen Leopards, Wooden Wand) and Kevin Ink (The Residents, Frank Black).