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//Joyful Noise//
£25.99 – 1xLP, Limited Edition White Coloured Vinyl
A newly remastered reissue of the second studio LP from the freshly reunited duo of Lou Barlow (Dinosaur JR, Sebadoh) and John Davis.
The partnership between Lou Barlow, already an indie-rock veteran with two of the era’s most influential bands in Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh amongst his credits, and John Davis, the erstwhile librarian whose skeletal solo work paired elliptical guitar figures with lyrics that evoked the language poets, seemed at first like an opportunity to get silly with it in ways that wouldn’t have sat quite right with their other projects. What came out of Fort Apache was different: mannered, moody, dubby even (they sampled Erik Satie, for crying out loud!).
Lacking the budget to go back to the proper studio that the KIDS gig had afforded them, the Folk Implosion settled instead on Gagel’s small recording space in Boston’s South End. There were rules, rules born from frank conversations. No chords. No strumming. No indie rock! They whiled away afternoons in the park writing lyrics, trading lines. And over a year of episodic sessions, a weekend here, a few days there, an album came together. When “Natural One” blew up it could’ve changed the calculus — the opportunity was there to scrap what they’d been working on and start over with major-label money — but they elected instead to stay the course, confident in the process.
Tracklisting:
- Pole Position
- Wide Web
- Insinuation
- Barricade
- That’s the Trick
- Checking In
- Cold Night
- Park Dub
- Burning Paper
- (Blank Paper)
- Ball & Chain
- Fall Into November
- Dare to be Surprised
- River Devotion
