randy miller
Great record, very high quality vinyl pressing. Cross genre psych vibes to float away on, with excellent songwriting underscoring it all.
Favorite track: Somewhere Else.
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cheap and easy. no shame in heads on a budget. pop it in. still fully melted. CD's love you.
nice 4 panel wallet.....its sick
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it spins around and you look at it spin and say "my god how did they think this up?" and then you spiral into a wormhole and spend the rest of your life crawling out towards the light. and you're only on side A
sounds perfect. is perfect
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As guitarist/vocalist for Garcia Peoples, Danny Arakaki has spent the last several years building up one of the most solid discographies in recent memory. Each new GP LP is a step forward, as the band zeroes in and zones out on classic rock sounds that are at once both familiar and fresh. Garcia Peoples is a collective effort, with multiple songwriters and singers sharing the spotlight equally, family-style.
With that in mind, you might assume that Tumble In Shade, Arakaki’s debut solo album, would see the songwriter claiming center stage. But —even though Danny certainly shines plenty on these seven tracks — that’s not really the case. Instead, the album feels driven by a communal, collaborative spirit, generous and wide-open.
Arakaki has gathered together a fairly astonishing multi-generational collection of underground legends to back him up here. We’ve got Mike Bones (Weak Signal, Endless Boogie, Soldiers of Fortune) providing wicked lead guitar and Dan Iead (Broken West, Jess Williamson, Radar Bros.) on perfectly baked pedal steel. We’ve got Rachel Herman and Samara Lubelski (The Sonora Pine, Tower Recordings, Chelsea Light Moving) on dreamily droning violin and Jef Brown (Jackie-O-Motherfucker, Gospel of Mars) on righteous sax. The sturdy, imaginative rhythm section is Ryan Jewell (Chris Forsyth, Ryley Walker, Mosses) and Chad Laird (Jantar, Prince Rupert’s Drops). The elegant keyboards are courtesy of Office Culture’s Winston Cook-Wilson, while Andi Magenheimer and Helen Rush (Tower Recordings, Metal Mountains) pop in with harmonious backing vocals.
It’s a dream team, to say the least, and each musician delivers the goods throughout, whether it’s Bones, Herman and Cook-Wilson soaring together over the extended outro on “Crosswalk Heat” or the beautifully shifting sands of Jewell’s percussion on “Somewhere Else” or the Red Rhodes-meets-Bert-Jansch flavors that Iead brings to “Out of Reach.” Arakaki wisely gives his team plenty of room to play and the results are predictably magnificent.
Of course, even great musicians need great songs — and fortunately, Danny has plenty of those. Recorded at Jason Meagher’s Black Dirt Studio and Gary’s Electric in Brooklyn, the tunes on Tumble In Shade twist and turn, never ending up quite where you expect them to, but somehow maintaining a logical ebb and flow. This river has plenty of bends, but a welcoming destination is always in sight. Arakaki’s vocals sound more confident and comfortable than ever, and his lyrics are equal parts bitter and sweet. “If only for a moment we could be just like we wanted to,” he sings on “Make It Out,” the album’s closer. Tumble In Shade is full of those kinds of moments.
-Tyler Wilcox
credits
released January 20, 2023
Danny Arakaki - Guitar/Vocals
Ryan Jewell - Drums/Percussion
Mike Bones - Guitar
Chad Laird - Bass
Samara Lubelski - Violin (on "All Thanks")
Andi Magenheimer - Vocals (on tracks 1, 2, 4, 7)
Helen Rush - Vocals (on tracks 3&4)
Winston Cook-Wilson - Piano/Organ/Rhodes
Jef Brown - Saxophone
Rachel Herman - Violin
Dan Iead - Pedal Steel/Guitar
Art by Erin Weckerle
All design/layout by Darryl Norsen
Post-punk meets a very classic alt-rock sound on the new record from this Chicago group. RIYL The Breeders, Dinosaur Jr, and Yo La Tengo. Bandcamp New & Notable May 4, 2024