Cullen Omori | Sad Guy No More
Wed, 03/16/2016 - 11:52 by karyn
"Sometimes you can't be new, but it's worth a try," Cullen Omori sings on "Synthetic Romance," one of the many reflective and spangling indie-pop songs spread across his debut solo LP, New Misery. It's a fair assessment, as to many he'll always be the singer/guitarist of Smith Westerns, the jangled-up crew he formed in his late teens that issued a trio of praised albums before imploding in 2014. The last couple of years were tough for the Chicago-bred songwriter, and came fraught with moments of self-doubt.