k.s. Rhoads
Some say that k.s. Rhoads is the most exciting new artist to come out of Nashville since Josh Rouse. He writes dark, romantic pop songs of love and sadness. His songs often border on vaudevillian with big string sections and sweeping crescendos. Basically, he's Rufus Wainwright but darker, straighter and with less of a Judy Garland fixation. His music carries a heavy and brooding masculinity, despite sounding more like the music of a 1930's German cabaret than a modern-day Nashville club.
Rhoads' songs "Dark Hotel", "Dead Language", "Darkness In the Year of Our Lord" and "The Last Goodbye" off his debut album, Dead Language, gives a good indication of Rhoads' musical mood less than sunny. However, the melancholy in his songs is just over the top enough to be endearing instead of pretentious or morose.
It's like The Smiths, who made feeling bad feel so good.
Rhoads' songs "Dark Hotel", "Dead Language", "Darkness In the Year of Our Lord" and "The Last Goodbye" off his debut album, Dead Language, gives a good indication of Rhoads' musical mood less than sunny. However, the melancholy in his songs is just over the top enough to be endearing instead of pretentious or morose.
It's like The Smiths, who made feeling bad feel so good.
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