Deep down in Louisiana (way back up in the woods among the evergreens), I assume there’s probably like 60,000 lazy, truant, and/or goldbricking dudes and dudettes casually playing super-virtuosic rock and blues guitar with their asses leaned up against some log cabin made of earth and wood. Fine. Whatever. But AIN’T NO ONE got a stranglehold on charming, lo-fi, fucked-up country/folk music like the two or three ladies and gentlemen heading up the Moderate Fidelity production label.
Having already unleashed records by such Chuck Berry-wasting talents as Guts Club, the label is now poised to kick out the first release from label co-founder and singer/songwriter Adam Campagna a.k.a. Mr. Universe.
Campagna’s debut album, a smear-y, beer-y, mish-mash of 1970s AM radio singer/songwriter pop, classic country rock, unabashed Steely Dan-worship, and a half-busted-but-still-trusty Roland Rhythm 77 drum machine that has already spanned “two years, multiple studios, and two cities” is appropriately titled Everything’s Good/It’s Not Working. And it’s finally gonna see the light of day (via Moderate Fidelity, natch) on November 11.
But before the revolution happens and everyone finally forgets all about Johnny B. Good and his totally L7, status-quo-stoking, hackneyed, and oppressive “blues-based guitar riffs” once and for all, you can get a taste of the album via this-here friendly neighborhood premiere of its first single, “You Got Away,” a rollicking freight-train boss-nova featuring enough crystal-clean guitar strums and angelic string pads to make getting “so high I ain’t never comin’ down” sound like a downright religious calling. Check it out for yourself down below, and do your part to help keep New Orleans weird.
Everything’s Good/It’s Not Working tracklisting:
01. Big Star Record
02. Party For Bridget
03. You Got Away
04. You Say
05. Be The One
06. Because I Could
07. Go
08. Dear
09. Goddamn
10. I’d Like to Say
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