Elvis Perkins

A singer and songwriter whose music is both literate and impressionistic, fusing elements of contemporary folk, Americana, and indie rock, Elvis Perkins seemed destined to follow a career in the arts, though not necessarily as a musician. The son of a celebrated actor and a successful photographer, Perkins took an individualist approach to pop music, with poetic lyrics, full of metaphors and multiple meanings, matched to melodies that made room for lo-fi pop as well as roots music and arrangements that welcomed offbeat instrumentation, as his gentle but insistent vocals floate...