# FLORAL PORTRAIT’s Self-Titled Debut Out Now

- Link: https://www.nyrdcast.com/floral-portraits-self-titled-debut-out-now/
- Published: 2023-02-07T15:29:41-06:00
- Author: Eugene Tierney

Floral Portrait is a pop project of Jason Bronson and collaborator Jacob Chisenhall.
Also enlisted are multi-instrumentalist Freeman Leverett along with a cast of orchestral
musicians and friends.

[⌊Floral Portrait⌉⌊Floral Portrait⌉[

For over a decade now, much of independent and experimental pop has been sequestered
to the safety and seclusion of a bedroom, with hushed vocals and reverb-laden instrumentation
forming a protective cocoon around the often times solo songwriter.  

Floral Portrait is definitely not that.

Born from the creative energies of Jason Bronson, Floral Portrait is a highly collaborative,
maximalist recording venture in which friends and former classmates alike utilize
a legitimate recording studio to bring his stately compositions to life.  Inspired
by pop auteurs like The Zombies and The Beach Boys, Jason has crafted ten gorgeous
songs like the precociously sweet “[Clarissa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlkRFEetKlU)”
and the heart-achingly grandiose “Winter Isolation” that wear their apparent refinement
with an inviting, peppy pride.

Some of the more obtuse harmonies in songs like “Spectacle in Paisley Park” melodically
bring to mind the Brian Wilson-ad-futurism of modern avant pop contemporaries like
Palm or Red Sea. “Sunset Stroll” evokes Girls and the masterful impressionism of
Chet “JR” White’s production precision, toeing the line of homage but keeping things
more visionary than simply revivalist.  

And despite the whimsical and fun nature of the songs, Bronson is dead serious about
the craft of his pure pop. More of a composer than anything, he sometimes spends
years honing in on the specifics of a song he is creating, ever-learning, testing
progressions, analyzing works of the past, and totally restarting to craft a product
he finds satisfying enough for himself and listeners alike. 

Floral Portrait - Clarissa (Official Music Video)

[⌊Floral Portrait - Clarissa (Official Music Video)⌉⌊Floral Portrait - Clarissa (
Official Music Video)⌉
Watch this video on YouTube

_“A gorgeous opus of grandiose orchestral pop.  There are an array of influences
and touchpoints on the record from early Bee Gees to Burt Bacharach, Harry Nilsson
to The Wondermints and High Llamas, even the theatrical Britpop of Pulp and The 
Divine Comedy, but most obviously ‘60s psych pop, at its essence a meld of Zombies
melodies and Beach Boys instrumentation, although even that might be selling short
the ambition and grandness at work here — just like Brian Wilson, inspired by Phil
Spector’s Wall of Sound, added and multiplied new concepts, sounds, and layers to
that existing template, Bronson takes his Wilson inspirations and runs with them.”–**
Deadbeatclub.com**_

**Social Media:
[Bandcamp](https://floralportrait.bandcamp.com/album/floral-portrait)
| [Linktree](https://linktr.ee/floralportrait)

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