A key player in the thriving Brooklyn underground music community for years now, founder of afrobeat ensemble Aphrodesia, lynchpin of jazz-dubbers Super Hi-Fi, and former student of Yusef Lateef; Ezra Gale has that rare curious versatility as a musician that is both admirable and maddeningly envy-producing. It boggles the mind. In fact, it GOGGLES THE EAR, if you know what I mean. If not, you will in three…two…one…
The Eargoggle is Gale’s personal shape-shifting musical outlet, and he has a new full-length called The Beautiful Creatures Really Are So Cruel coming out on November 17 through his own Very Special Recordings imprint (cuz, oh yeah: he does that too). Weighing in at 19 tracks and featuring savvy support from Jason Slota (drums, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down), Bram Kincheloe (drums, Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds), and Erica Gale (vocals), the album reflects its creator, never treading the same musical floorboards from track to track to track (repeat 16 more times).
Check out the album’s great, Stefan Zeniuk-directed, stop-motion video down below — and pre-order The Beautiful Creatures Really Are So Cruel on 180 gram digital download and/or limited-to-100-edition cassette here.
The Beautiful Creatures Really Are So Cruel tracklisting:
01. TSFW
02. Split
03. Elizabeth
04. Picking My Bones
05. The Alien I Need
06. Barricades
07. Roof by The Square
08. Us Against Them
09. She’s Everywhere I Know
10. Different Stations
11. Hotel Nacionel
12. We’re at War With the
13. Empty
14. Left
15. Under the Light
16. Where We Stand
17. Verses
18. They Were Asking Me About You
19. Where Do They Go
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