Dan Melchior

The prolific and eclectic Dan Melchior first made a name for himself on the same Medway music scene that produced Billy Childish and Holly Golightly (and collaborated with both), but he's since gone on to carve out a more unique identity with his own take on lo-fi pop. Melchior began as an advocate of raw, scrappy music steeped in the blues on 1999's This Love Is Real, but 2002's Bitterness, Spite, Rage and Scorn added a large portion of low-tech garage rock. Gritty rock & roll with a pop sensibility defined 2011's Catbird and Cardinals, and he took a detour into experimental ...