Sean Lennon

Remember how critics complained that Julian Lennon's voice sounded too much like his late father's when Valotte debuted in 1984? Sean Lennon's third album is going to get critics griping that his voice sounds too much like Yoko Ono. Just kidding. Friendly Fire is actually a collection of 11 pop songs that each accompany 11 different short films that he produced under Michele Civetta's direction. The title track seems more inspired by the late Syd Barrett, but others like "Wait for Me" do recall John Lennon's penchant for heady whimsy and breathy, belletristic ballads.

Into the Sun, Sean Lennon's 1998 debut, was the casually jazzy album of a young New York
celebrity with the talents and the means to explore any sort of music that piqued his
wide-ranging twenty-two-year-old curiosities. Then he split with his longtime girlfriend
after she cheated on him with his best friend; a year and a half later, Lennon's best friend
died in a motorcycle accident, without Lennon reconciling with him. These eve... More >