Dopamine

As art-porn soundtracker, Latin Playboy, and producer (Richard Thompson, Bonnie Raitt, etc.), Froom brings a creaky, freaky, polyglot Americana to all his projects. Debuting as auteur on Dopamine with archaic keyboards in tow, he creates oddball sound scenarios for various songwriting pals. Soul Coughing’s M. Doughty plays Dada-noir detective, Sheryl Crow plays wild banshee, and wife Suzanne Vega plays drug pusher. Yet in the end, Froom’s backdrops upstage almost everyone. B+