SEAN KIELY

Sean Kiely is one of Jersey City's most exciting and original singer-songwriters. His music contemplates the world with a keen ear for unusual and compelling beauty. Tris McCall writing for the Jersey City Times says, "Sean Kiely's folk-rock songs grow like beautiful brambles. He takes compositional risks and chases beauty into the sonic thickets, and he loves to astonish and surprise. Some of his songs are as winsome and delicate as snowflakes, others are barbed, and more than a few are quite funny - in a dry, knowing sort of way. Kiely sings this all in a bell-clear voice with inerrant pitch, and when he's got some buddies along to harmonize with him, they approach the spectral quality of Fleet Foxes, and maybe even some of David Crosby's solo projects."