Rating: NNN
Megan Hamilton’s swaying vocals and delicate acoustic strumming have a hippie tinge, but don’t toss her into the college coffee-house open-mic dustbin. See Your Midnight Breath is Hamilton’s first studio-produced full-length, recorded in just five days.
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Her simple vocal lines benefit greatly from her backing band and from sound designer Mark Vogelsang, who recorded the instruments according to how they might sound in various places on a ship. (Visit meganhamiltonmusic.com for a detailed description.) Unfortunately, she doesn’t capitalize on the energy displayed on Detroit, a song from her recent EP, How We Think About Light. And that leaves this disc without an anchor single.
Top track: Wherever You Are
Megan Hamilton plays CMF Thursday (March 12) at Rancho Relaxo.