Description:
The nationwide release of `Roughs` by former and founding member of the Los Angeles rock band Sugarcult, now available on Velvet Crush and Matthew Sweet drummer Ric Menck`s Bird Song imprint. Ben`s doing his very own laidback soft-rock thing, with a dab of country & western, quite a departure from Sugarcult`s highly-touted tautness. Leaving behind a life of rock-nroll excess, this enigmatic album qualifies both as emancipation and exorcism, a collection of intimate, personal songs about love, longing,loathing and self-destruction. Likened to singer-songwriterly, orch-popping artists like Ken Stringfellow and The Posies, Kevin Tihista`s Red Terror,Pete Yorn and Velvet Crush. (Bird Song)
