Cant Wake Up (vinyl)

The new album 'Can't Wake Up' by Austin's Shakey Graves, his follow-up to 2014's 'And The War Came.' Texas singer-songwriter Alejandro Rose-Garcia is known for twangy, blues-rooted Americana that charms your socks off, the kind fit for dancing barefoot on a back porch in the southern heat. On Can't Wake Up, his fifth album, he gambles with the very formula that brought him fame. Armed with new instruments and a lifetime of dreams, he forgoes his boot-stomping, cheeky folk for a sound that fluctuates between finely-tuned rock and full-band pop. Alejandro Rose-Garcia pulls it off in large part due to his storytelling prowess; these songs would be welcoming, even enthralling, in any style.