Bryan Scary

Although Brooklyn based singer/songwriter Bryan Scary maintains a public persona in keeping with his surname, coming across as some sort of Frankenstenian hybrid of the Cramps and the cast of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events novels, the multi-instrumentalist isn't the gothy death metal freak one might expect. Claiming the Beatles, the Kinks, Queen, and XTC as his primary musical influences, Scary essays a widescreen form of orchestral, semi-psychedelic art pop in a style somewhere between the retro obsessions of Jellyfish or the Posies and the twistier sides of ...