Palehound - Dry Food (Black Vinyl)

Palehound - Dry Food (Black Vinyl)Recorded with Gabe Wax (Wye Oak, Speedy Ortiz), the album is full of sonic and emotional twist in turns as it was written at a time in Kempners life that was defined by instability and uncertainty. Dry Food is highlighted by Kempners whispery alto voice and sophisticated musicianship, which gives the album a raw, confessional feel, even on louder, rattling tracks. Molly bursts open the record with a static earworm of a bass line, fuzzed out guitar

In the late 1970’s Athens

great pop ballads sit side by side with heavy rock songs

The War On Drugs conjure an ambling drone that conceals real pop-hooks and allows classic-rock colours to seep through

the self-managed South Korean-born

off-kilter “77x” builds an eerie scene over a minimal slowcore foundation before the following track “Clover” thrusts into a playful headbanger

By inviting the legendary Mohamed At Itlale aka Japonais (who has since

with unprecedented amounts of care and in a much more collaborative manner than his past albums

Cymande’s massive influence can be heard in the dozens and dozens of samples taken from their albums over the last five decades

arrangement

the band indulges an obsession with Loveless

It’s a meditative

developing a highly original and finely detailed approach to audio production