David Pajo's first album since 2018's all-acoustic 'A Broke Moon Rises', 'Ballads of Harry Houdini' takes the opposite approach, boiling over with distorted riffs, screaming feedback, Talkbox vocals and spiraling delays.
Even just a quick peep at opening track 'Thank You For Talking To Me (When I Was Fat)' should be enough to let you know that Pajo's back. Recorded on his own, the record sounds like he's surveying years of activity - there's a clear silhouette of Slint in the opener's chugging distortions and motorik groove, and in the effortlessly psychedelic zig-zags of 'People's Free Food Program'. But Pajo doesn't stop there, he finds the time to lay down a couple of folksy ballads: the hoarse lead single 'Ode To Mark White' and the blues-y grinder 'Rainbow of Gloom'.
Most interestingly, the influence of funk rears its head on 'Barfighter', the album's unexpected apex, when Pajo intersperses his slap bass and ASMR beatbox pops (really) with slippery Talkbox moans. And on the dilated closer 'Devil Tongue', he plays along with a faded drum machine preset, capturing some of the widescreen majesty of Labradford in the process.
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David Pajo's first album since 2018's all-acoustic 'A Broke Moon Rises', 'Ballads of Harry Houdini' takes the opposite approach, boiling over with distorted riffs, screaming feedback, Talkbox vocals and spiraling delays.
Even just a quick peep at opening track 'Thank You For Talking To Me (When I Was Fat)' should be enough to let you know that Pajo's back. Recorded on his own, the record sounds like he's surveying years of activity - there's a clear silhouette of Slint in the opener's chugging distortions and motorik groove, and in the effortlessly psychedelic zig-zags of 'People's Free Food Program'. But Pajo doesn't stop there, he finds the time to lay down a couple of folksy ballads: the hoarse lead single 'Ode To Mark White' and the blues-y grinder 'Rainbow of Gloom'.
Most interestingly, the influence of funk rears its head on 'Barfighter', the album's unexpected apex, when Pajo intersperses his slap bass and ASMR beatbox pops (really) with slippery Talkbox moans. And on the dilated closer 'Devil Tongue', he plays along with a faded drum machine preset, capturing some of the widescreen majesty of Labradford in the process.
David Pajo's first album since 2018's all-acoustic 'A Broke Moon Rises', 'Ballads of Harry Houdini' takes the opposite approach, boiling over with distorted riffs, screaming feedback, Talkbox vocals and spiraling delays.
Even just a quick peep at opening track 'Thank You For Talking To Me (When I Was Fat)' should be enough to let you know that Pajo's back. Recorded on his own, the record sounds like he's surveying years of activity - there's a clear silhouette of Slint in the opener's chugging distortions and motorik groove, and in the effortlessly psychedelic zig-zags of 'People's Free Food Program'. But Pajo doesn't stop there, he finds the time to lay down a couple of folksy ballads: the hoarse lead single 'Ode To Mark White' and the blues-y grinder 'Rainbow of Gloom'.
Most interestingly, the influence of funk rears its head on 'Barfighter', the album's unexpected apex, when Pajo intersperses his slap bass and ASMR beatbox pops (really) with slippery Talkbox moans. And on the dilated closer 'Devil Tongue', he plays along with a faded drum machine preset, capturing some of the widescreen majesty of Labradford in the process.
David Pajo's first album since 2018's all-acoustic 'A Broke Moon Rises', 'Ballads of Harry Houdini' takes the opposite approach, boiling over with distorted riffs, screaming feedback, Talkbox vocals and spiraling delays.
Even just a quick peep at opening track 'Thank You For Talking To Me (When I Was Fat)' should be enough to let you know that Pajo's back. Recorded on his own, the record sounds like he's surveying years of activity - there's a clear silhouette of Slint in the opener's chugging distortions and motorik groove, and in the effortlessly psychedelic zig-zags of 'People's Free Food Program'. But Pajo doesn't stop there, he finds the time to lay down a couple of folksy ballads: the hoarse lead single 'Ode To Mark White' and the blues-y grinder 'Rainbow of Gloom'.
Most interestingly, the influence of funk rears its head on 'Barfighter', the album's unexpected apex, when Pajo intersperses his slap bass and ASMR beatbox pops (really) with slippery Talkbox moans. And on the dilated closer 'Devil Tongue', he plays along with a faded drum machine preset, capturing some of the widescreen majesty of Labradford in the process.
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David Pajo's first album since 2018's all-acoustic 'A Broke Moon Rises', 'Ballads of Harry Houdini' takes the opposite approach, boiling over with distorted riffs, screaming feedback, Talkbox vocals and spiraling delays.
Even just a quick peep at opening track 'Thank You For Talking To Me (When I Was Fat)' should be enough to let you know that Pajo's back. Recorded on his own, the record sounds like he's surveying years of activity - there's a clear silhouette of Slint in the opener's chugging distortions and motorik groove, and in the effortlessly psychedelic zig-zags of 'People's Free Food Program'. But Pajo doesn't stop there, he finds the time to lay down a couple of folksy ballads: the hoarse lead single 'Ode To Mark White' and the blues-y grinder 'Rainbow of Gloom'.
Most interestingly, the influence of funk rears its head on 'Barfighter', the album's unexpected apex, when Pajo intersperses his slap bass and ASMR beatbox pops (really) with slippery Talkbox moans. And on the dilated closer 'Devil Tongue', he plays along with a faded drum machine preset, capturing some of the widescreen majesty of Labradford in the process.