The Thin Man

Rock / Soul / Other

Chicago, IL

Billboard

Like gospel that spreads from tavern to tavern, ship to ship, town to
town, the music of The Thin Man resonates outwards towards an
always-heedful mass. The Thin Man's songs are midnight lullabies
and daydream fantasies, literate tales that spin their maxims in
tapestries of velvet chords, minor accordion keys, rousing R&B
arrangements, and rollicking guitars. Infused with an inspired
whiskey wit and sharp eye that careens out into the endless sea of
the City, The Thin Man gives voice to the vice of observation.

popmatters says this!
Live, of course, frontman Kennedy Greenrod cuts an imposing figure: the definition of lanky, thrusting his
chin forward to spit at the microphone, elbows punching out at odd angles from his accordion. But on
record, The Thin Man's songs conjure a world designed by a committee of Bertolt Brecht, Charles Dickens,
and Al Capone. It's a world where the greasy heart in question alludes not only to a lover's dark motives or
the main intersection of a dank metropolis, but the organ itself, still throbbing in a bucket of giblets, bloody
and tactile. Greasy Heart, the band's third full-length, is the best yet at drawing you, or yanking you, its dangerous world to the point where you want to tear up your ticket home...