Folk-influenced American Rock: Megan Slankard's A Little Extra Sun EP

Adam Rossi (keyboardist for LUCE) produced Megan Slankard’s 5-song EP A Little Extra Sun in such a way as to electrify her acoustic-core songs, lend some edge to her airy melodies and vocals, landscaping her songs with altitude changes, whirling butterflies, and shifting light and shadow.

With Rossi at the helm, Slankard can be compared to Shawn Colvin and Margaret Becker whose songs retain a folk singer core base coat even as production can color and shade those songs for variety. If Slankard explored her guttural growls that appear sporatically on A Little Extra Sun, she’d also find comparisons to Sarah Masen and Jennifer Knapp coming her way. This would also help her to keep her songs from floating away into airy pop without only relying on production to do this. “Riley” is where Slankard shows some of this spunk, and this may be the best sign of the things that should come from this young singer-songwriter.

Thank you to the Megan Slankard for the review copy. Find info about Adam Rossi’s band by clicking here: LUCE.