REVIEW: Large Brush Collection -- Off Center

We last heard fro Large Brush Collection way before Rainbow Rodeo was even a website — when singer Nora Predey and Creekbed Carter Hogan spoke with us about her split EP with Creekbed Carter Hogan. Large Brush Collection’s music is unlike anything I’ve ever heard — inexorable and vivacious, flowing like a brook in springtime, complete with Gabriela Torres’ rollicking flute. (Yes, you read that right — they’ve got the jump on Andre 3000.)

Off Center chronicles a time in transition: failed relationships, the search for connection, trying to figure out who you want to be. Predey wrote these songs as they were in the midst of coming out to her family, but none of the songs explicitly touch on the subject. Rather, these are intensely personal postcards from the universal experience of becoming.

Large Brush Collection’s soft approach shows us that there’s a way to do that gracefully. While we find awkwardness, sadness, and yearning on Off Center, we never see angst. These moments in our lives are as natural as the joys, and Large Brush Collection shows us how to approach them with equanimity and curiosity.

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