Telekinesis
12 Desperate Straight Lines

The dude-librarian aspect of his press photos is no doubt at least partially responsible, but it?s really tempting to think of Michael Benjamin Lerner...

Commuter beware: listening to Telekinesis (a.k.a. Seattle-based songwriter Michael Benjamin Lerner) will only frustrate you if you’re trapped inside a...

It's not been fun times lately for Michael Benjamin Lerner, the bespectacled frontman of Telekinesis. A broken romance, a cracked-up tour van, tempora...

Michael Lerner may be the sole musician wandering the halls of his now two-album-deep discography as Telekinesis, but he creates indie-pop that comes ...

If you want to know what the new Telekinesis record is about, you need look no further than its first line – “We fell in love in the summer/by the spr...

Desperation doesn?t feel suitably termed with straight. Desperation feels fraught, wobbled and reactionary. Maybe that?s an apt synopsis for 12 Desper...

“Was it you or was it me” asks Michael Benjamin Lemer on opening track ‘You Turn Clear In The Sun’, dropping the hint that ...

Michael Lerner set out to record the follow-up to ‘Telekinesis!’ having lost his band and his muse - he had split from the partner who inspired that d...

The sophomore effort by Telekinesis isn’t bad. Not by a long shot. Each of the 12 tracks that make up the album is a quick nugget of melodic guitar ri...

Despite Michael Benjamin Lerner’s penchant for peppy tunes and “BUP-baada-BUP” vocals, the Telekinesis mastermind seems like a worrywart on 12 Despera...