Quichenight - Dork in the Dark (2019)

When he isn't touring North America with brainy art-punk band PUJOL, Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist Brett Rosenberg is busy prepping and cooking Quichenight albums, which currently total seven. The largely home-recorded efforts offer a diverse buffet of powerpop, tongue-in-cheek rockers, jazzy interludes, and freak folk, with a healthy portion of sticky hooks. If chef Rosenberg's recordings tend toward the lower end of the fidelity grill, his taste for seasoned playing and neo-traditionalist composition surely balances the palette. While 2015's The Minor Sea was a beach-themed allegorical song-cycle which Nashville Scene said 'took psychedelic surf rock to a new, modernized level, ' 2016's Camille's Market is a more casual, more instrumental affair, featuring some of the catchiest Quichenight songs (the lead single, 'Milky Sweet Midnight Lady') and some of its wildest (Evenflo Jr.).