Like a kaleidoscope, the songs put forth on Argyle Heir unfold in a simple manner, revealing a very complex pattern of color and beauty. Released in 2001, it feels from another time, one more distant or removed even from the twenty years that have passed. Not quite pop, nor folk, or even just a mediated combination of the two, The Ladybug Transistor create an era of music unlike any that came before or since.
One of this record’s great achievements is to provide a cocoon like envelope of sound where there isn’t anything at stake except the fear of missing something hidden within the whirling textures and sudden and subtle bursts of that dizzying color. As such, an initial foray could lead one to easily dismiss what occurs here as naive, but each subsequent listen dispels the notion that life and all of its challenges wasn’t involved in the making of this record.
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