Breathing Tornados
A pivot from lo-fi roots into shimmering late-90s pop, blending earnest acoustic songwriting with cold electronic beats and urban melancholy.
November 13, 1998 · Capitol Records
A pivot from lo-fi roots into shimmering late-90s pop, blending earnest acoustic songwriting with cold electronic beats and urban melancholy.
November 13, 1998 · Capitol Records
Breathing Tornados represents the precise moment a teenage prodigy grows up and discovers the cold, sleek beauty of the recording studio. It is an album that sounds like the transition from a messy bedroom to a high-rise apartment: it retains the earnest, slightly nasal vulnerability of Ben Lee's earlier work but wraps it in the sophisticated textures of late-90s electronica and chamber pop. The acoustic guitar is still the heart, but it is now surrounded by trip-hop beats, shimmering synthesizers, and lush string arrangements that evoke a sense of big-city isolation.
How does Breathing Tornados sound next to the rest of Ben Lee's catalogue?
Urban Night saturates this record far more than the artist's norm.
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