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Deluxe double vinyl LP pressing. 2004 debut album by Daryl Palumbo's (Glassjaw, Color Film) Head Automatica • Expanded and remastered Deluxe Edition includes 8 non-LP bonus tracks. • Features liner notes by Jason Pettigrew with reimagined album art Head AutomaticA was formed by Daryl Palumbo of the influential post-hardcore band Glassjaw to explore his other musical interests that didn't fit into the Glassjaw lane. Palumbo was in the midst of making the second Glassjaw album, Worship And Tribute, when he was introduced to producer Dan InchThe AutomatorInch Nakamura with the result being Head Automatica's first album, Decadence, released in 2004. The album allowed Palumbo with Nakamura (whose production work included Gorillaz, DJ Shadow, and Handsome Boy Modeling School, among others) to dive into diverse genres and artists for inspiration-hip-hop to Frank Zappa to Britpop and beyond. InchThe product speaks for itself. As soon as the needle rolls out of the lead-in groove and into InchThe Speed Of A Yellow Bullet,Inch... hold on, candyasses-you realize that you're in the movie now. It hits perfectly. Head A works that jam confidently like they were called in to replace The MC5 at a headlining gig at a Black Panthers town hall meeting. And damn if Daryl doesn't sell it That dropped couplet from The Mothers Of Invention's 1966 highmark debut Freak Out (InchI saw the smoke and fire/and the market burning downInch) smells like a passed torch once lit from inside a time machine. Then the downshift into InchBrooklyn Is Burning,Inch where Nakamura's drum loops and chrome-plated spaghetti Western samples just heighten Palumbo's swagger in all the best ways.Inch from the liner notes by Jason Pettigrew Decadence appeared on the Billboard 200 and the Top Heatseekers charts and Palumbo formed a group to tour the U.S. alongside bands like The Cure and Interpol. Popaganda, the seco
