“Alle Norton’s ’80s influenced pop project, Cellars, is named after a bit from the 2001 cult classic Donnie Darko, wherein Drew Barrymore’s character alludes to the unexplainable allure of the otherwise humdrum phrase “cellar door.” Even as its three syllables evoke drab, imminent darkness, they leap off the tongue ravishingly: a morose signifier rendered mellifluous. Norton—a multi-instrumentalist”
