The search is on in Shelf Life’s new LP Everyone Make Happy. The album, which is being released today via Lefse Records, has a confidential sound as if Scotty Leitch has subtlety unlatched the window to his inner workings. What one finds inside is a group of songs that are touched with a rain-soaked sadness, while still radiating a positive outlook. There is both a feeling of lonely wandering and an exploratory freedom. Solitary acoustic guitar and dark incisive twists of the lyrical pen strike a deep chord, yet there remains a twilight sensation. Lavender Town hosts the record release show which also features the fuzz-fueled, grungey ebb and flow of Blue Smiley, who measure calm valleys with frenzied peaks. The mercurial flashes and open-diary sounds of Anthony Leitch’s musical vehicle About A Million gets things started. Lavender Town, (Please contact one of the acts or venue for more info.), 7:30pm, $3-$5, All Ages (Photo by Ethan Holland) – Michael Colavita
