Paul Dempsey (Australian indie) Strange Loop 2LP 2016 NEW SEALED
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Paul Dempsey
Strange Loop
Capitol Records 4777228 2016 2X12" 33rpm (Australia)
Rolling Stone: The Something For Kate frontman here dons a cowboy hat on this unusually carefree set.
Strange Loop opener “The True Sea” is a red herring – an urgent, seven-minute lament with a refrain (“She makes the ocean seem like a drop in the ocean”) that recalls Something For Kate at their most angst-ridden. It’s a finely crafted song, but in some ways it’s the least interesting track on Paul Dempsey’s second proper solo record. On the 10 cuts that follow, the frontman tackles new challenges, proving that his dextrous guitar playing and his skills as an arranger can be applied in a variety of contexts.
The album’s straight-faced predecessor, 2009?s Everything Is True, took its cues primarily from folk-rock, and traces of that sound remain. But this is a lighter, wackier record: the American South is the touchstone, so there are plenty of piano licks, twanging guitars and rollicking sing-a-long choruses.
Dempsey clearly had fun writing and arranging these songs: on the gorgeous “Idiot Oracle”, he double-tracks the drums to make them sound more personable, while on the sweet, pedal-steel-soaked closer “(I’ve Got a Feeling) Nobody’s Trying to Tell Me Something” he uncharacteristically tells his subject to “Go fuck yourself”.
It’s an album full of little surprises – and, two decades after he started releasing music, it proves that Dempsey still has inspiration to spare.
Tracklist
A1 The True Sea
A2 Strange Loop
B3 Idiot Oracle
B4 Hey History (Don't Go Changin')
B5 Lifetime Supply
C6 Morningless
C7 Be Somebody
C8 Blindspot
D9 Iris Black
D10 Volunteers
D11 Nobody's Trying To Tell Me Something
Manufactured By – EMI Music Australia Pty. Limited
All Recordings ? 2016 Paul Dempsey. Manufactured & Marketed by EMI Music Australia Pty Ltd / A Division of Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd , under exclusive license. Artwork 2016 Paul Dempsey
Two vinyl discs in a gatefold hard card picture sleeve is NEW and SEALED
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