Charlie & The Fayettes - The Whole Shebang - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Caleb Landry Jones is a continual creator. The Texan born star found fame as an actor - you'll recognise him from key roles in X-Men First Class, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, amongst others - but music is perhaps his first love, and his source of greatest comfort. A chance encounter with famed auteur Jim Jarmusch brought him into the orbit of Sacred Bones, and the stalwart independent released Caleb's 2020 debut album 'The Mother Stone'. Psychedelic in a defiantly non-retro way, this indulgent, freewheeling trip won critical acclaim, but masked a secret - he'd already finished another album. Filming alongside Tom Hanks in dystopian themed Finch, Caleb found himself writing during those long evenings after the shoot in locations across New Mexico, idling away his hours by focussing on creativity. InchI need it,Inch he says. InchI've tried working without it. On one acting job, I intentionally didn't bring a guitar to try and do it without music... but that didn't last long. I need to create something - it could be a drawing, it could be a song - because otherwise I feel like I'm wasting time. Which is something I do plenty of on my own!Inch With his creative faculties burning, Caleb knew he had to get straight back into the studio when filming stopped. Linking with the same cast who formed 'The Mother Stone', he resumed his partnership with producer Nic Jodoin, based out of the elegant Valentine Recording Studio in Los Angeles. A studio steeped in history - everyone from Bing Crosby to Frank Zappa worked there - he interrupted mixing sessions for his own debut album in order to focus on something different. InchI knew I could make something a little more focussed, and less difficult. And this became an experiment,Inch he explains. InchWe wanted to do something we hadn't done on the last one and also get a slightly different sound.Inch Producer Nic Jodoin

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Charlie Faye & the Fayettes craft smart soul-pop that merges the sound and style of '60s girl groups with a vibe that's so current, they're already dancing to the forefront of the retro-revival movement. InchMusically, the group hearkens to Motown, Spector or the Brill Building Charlie is emerging as a budding Carole King, and the songs are good enough to rate comparison to Goffin & King or Mann & Weil.Inch - Huffington Post InchThe album stretches beyond the coy boundaries of '60s girl groups with the opener 'Green Light,' and though 'Eastside' could usher dancers down a Soul Train line, it's Stax-styled groove and horn chart service a serious look at social gentrification.Inch - No Depression InchCharlie Faye & The Fayettes is sophisticated and warm, but also enormously fun. There's such love and joy in the songwriting, it's palpable. Coupled with exquisite harmonies and sumptuous melodies, it sounds like happiness. Some days, that's all you need.Inch