Langhorne Slim is the more dramatic, fitting stage name of Brooklyn songwriter Sean Scolnick, a whirlwind banjo player and folk, rock and blues enthusiast with a strident, unabashedly nasal voice. He’s too self-aware to be a straight-faced old-timemusic revivalist, though, and his hooky songs borrow from the modest pop sensibilities of ’80s college rock and alt-country. Slim’s latest album, Be Set Free, released last year, is his fullest yet, padded by the rich, symphonic production of The Decemberists’ Chris Funk.
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