Christian Linsey's latest LP “New English” is full of songs that really want to love and comfort you. It's lo-fi collage with weird love songs, lush dreamscapes, depression, old friends, family and love. "Sand in your hair" is a tripped out dream with hazy vocals floating over a stilted beat. "Lunchroom" and "Left your arm" are slacker-pop high school daydreams, "Hello" could be the soundtrack to a mysterious experimental 80s movie. As a drummer in NYC on projects for over 20 years -- Back to Blonde, FRANK, BOMBZ, Laura Stevenson, Dan Dauchy, Nicole Mercedes, Linsey eventually released his debut solo LP, "After All," recorded on a tascam digital 4 track with the help of friends, sparked by the loss of his mother and a desire to write his own material. While his first record (“After All”) was a response to great loss, “New English” is a rebirth. He’s older now, has learned to trust himself and his friends, and is less afraid to care deeply about making art. He started a family, found new structure in his life, and the odd pockets of time between parenting duties to experiment. Some songs arrived quickly, others were labored over for years. Linsey's "solo" efforts have remained quite collaborative--"New English" features Joe Rogers, Scott Porter, Matt Stamm, Pat Malone, Billy Ziff, along with some new voices: J57 (beats), Elenor Norton (cello), and Tory Giardina (vocals), whose contributions give the record a warm, ethereal quality.