Chris Acker - Famous Lunch (ORANGE / WHITE MARBLE VINYL) - VINYL LP

Chris Acker's latest collection of songs, Famous Lunch, is in his words, a Inchgrowing pains album.Inch When writing the record, the New Orleans' based folk musician found himself hunting for a voice that wasn't just an imitation of the one he'd been using on the last 30 songs he'd made. InchAt the same time, I worked hard to find a certain voice for myself over the previous 3 records and I didn't want to abandon that.InchWhile the album finds him continuing to transcribe life's fleeting and provocative banalities with refreshing grace, the songs on Famous Lunch are intentionally more absurd, stylizing his lyricism as both poetic and disarming simultaneously- commencing with InchSh*t SurpriseInch-an earworm with a vernacular that stays true to it's title. Inspired by George Saunders and Sasha Pearl (and wanting to make a song that sounds like Eagles saying the word Inchsh*tInch over and over), InchSh*t SurpriseInch is the most Chris Acker song possible, in that it's earnestness arrives in spades and comes varnished with a one-of-a-kind, spectacular gnarliness. InchWe'd match our breath in the upstairs room and we'd hold together 'til I smelled like you,Inch Acker sings, before nose-diving into that unforgettable chorus about stepping in a smelly, disgusting pile of sh*t.More than anything else, Famous Lunch finds Chris Acker at his most sentimental and grateful, as he sings about Bunn coffee machines, gas pumps smelling like Inchthe underside of a fingernailInch in August, Inch10-inchingInch bread, stealing country club lawn-mower motors, father-son fables, impatient buffet lines, and a broom that Inchhasn't been used since the last time I used it.Inch Acker's eye for detail remains, and his lexicon includes phrasings that spin out like a hypnotic wash cycle. Seeing the world through his eyes, language remains something worth falling into-growing pains and all. Album