Thomas Truax - Like A Fallen Tree

By all accounts, avant-garde New York artist-cum-musician Thomas Truax is something of an innovative oddity. He has designed an array of unique and bizarre instruments and stage props which have made his shows a must-see in his native metropolis. Like A Fallen Tree is an endearingly odd piece of darkly romantic melodrama. Truax, like an unplugged, organic Patrick Wolf, wears his eccentricities on his sleeve. The song does the job of a single perfectly, that is to say it leaves me intrigued. The B-Side, a drunken lullaby version of The Smiths' There is a Light that Never Goes Out is also notable for its bizarre, unsettling beauty. [Les Ogilvie]