ALBUM REVIEW: Andrew Sa Bares His Heart and Soul on Unflinching Debut, ‘American Rough’
From the start of Andrew Sa’s American Rough, it’s impossible not to be pulled in. With the album’s opening number and title track, a curtain of balmy keys, sinewy bass, and throbbing horns parts to reveal an apparition: “He’s mean
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From the start of Andrew Sa’s American Rough, it’s impossible not to be pulled in.
With the album’s opening number and title track, a curtain of balmy keys, sinewy bass, and throbbing horns parts to reveal an apparition: “He’s mean handsome / Can’t hardly be decent together / He’s American rough / Eatin’ the heart out of this room…”
This enticing figure, magnificently sculpted from Sa’s Orbisonian croon in just a minute and a half, lingers like a firm kiss throughout the rest of the country-folk singer-songwriter’s debut. His corded form is imprinted in the collection’s aching “Under You” and tangled up in the satin of “Your Whisper,” his presence offering a sure place to land as Sa takes listeners on a journey through the complexities of masculinity, the splendors of intimacy, and the commotion of longing.
