Rachael & Vilray - West of Broadway [CD]

Cat. no: CJA01084
Format: CD
Barcode: 888072687318
Release Date: 01 Aug 2025
Genre: Jazz

Since their formation in 2015, Brooklyn-based duo Rachael & Vilray have achieved a certain timeless quality with their singular take on traditional pop

Though rooted in the language of an earlier age, their songs transcend nostalgia with wit and a fair for the theatrical. On their third album West of Broadway , vocalist Rachael Price (also of Lake Street Dive) and guitarist/singer/songwriter Vilray evolve their music's previous dreaminess to achieve a refreshing angularity built on left-of-center instrumentation (e.g., vibraphone and alto saxophone coasting above the moody strains of baritone sax and trombone). 

Produced by Dan Knobler (Allison Russell, Bahamas), West of Broadway unfolds in a series of sharply drawn vignettes inspired by a recent fascination with classic musicals - bringing their luminous vocals to offbeat tales of love and heartache along city streets. Thanks in large part to the colorful detail and extravagant personality of Rachael & Vilray's storytelling, West of Broadway ultimately immerses the audience in an exquisitely out-of-time vision of their beloved New York City.

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Tracks: Forever Never Lasts / Is it Jim? / My Key to Gramercy Park / Lookin' at You, I Forgot / The Stuff / Closer / Love Comes Around / Off Broadway / To Change / Manhattan Serenade