Lea, Ada - When I Paint My Masterpiece (Ice Blue Vinyl) EPIC883341.1 and living felt easy

and living felt easy

after Betrayed In The Octagon (2007)

Sean Nicholas Savage

re-issued and pressed on yellow vinyl

That track-and the rest of this beautifully rich and melodic album-is the sound of a season's end

Lea, Ada - When I Paint My Masterpiece (Ice Blue Vinyl) EPIC883341.1 and living felt easyThe hand knows best, the painter Margaux Williamson says. A shape produces itself, where I go toward what is intuitive, rather than logical. The shapely, intuitive songs that comprise Ada Lea's third album, when i paint my masterpiece, are surprising, imagistic, tactile. Alexandra Levy holds her guitar against the backdrop of a sea of her paintings on the album cover and its tempting to ask: is painting a metaphor here, for music or life? No! She