Connie Lansberg’s first original album, Deep, dark Down & Blue, feels like a style and offering that’s entirely new in the modern pop rock landscape. Theirs shades of different styles scattered all across this record, with different genres, tempos, and ethos’s all merged together on a wholly captivating final piece. The work of Brian Losch in tying it all together can’t be stated enough either. Overall, the record feels like a jazz rock celebration, a delightful piece of lounge music that sprinkles together so many instrumental bits and pieces across its lengthy runtime that you’re kept perpetually engaged and perennially intrigued into what’s coming up next.
Connie Lansberg’s vocals find themselves to be the most powerful and singular highlight of the entire album undoubtedly. There’s simply so much flair and character to her performance, a characteristic swagger that just imbues personality into the record. The way she sinks Angel Tears, asking you ‘what you gonna do‘, has you completely hooked to her. Even the more soft and subtle performances on a more slowed down piece like ‘Something Cool’ have you wholly immersed into her record. There’s an intelligence and evocativeness to Connie Lansberg’s lyrics that makes the flair of the arrangement hit that much more.
Themed around secrets, heartache, dreams and the buzz of the unknown, Deep dark Down & Blue is an intimate and uplifting record that places the importance of its story and the interest of its characters front and centre. A remarkably distinct and exciting piece of modern jazz pop.