Sir Richard Bishop - Hillbilly Ragas - VINYL LP

Dummy is a rock band from Los Angeles comprised of Alex Ewell, Emma Maatman, Nathan O'Dell, and Joe Trainor. Their debut full-length Mandatory Enjoyment (Trouble in Mind) arrived in late 2021, becoming one of the year's sleeper hits and garnering praise from Pitchfork, Stereogum, and more. Coming out of lockdown, the band spent two years touring in support of the record, and it is this transformational experience that pulses through Free Energy, the exhilarating follow-up to Mandatory Enjoyment.A creatively restless band, Dummy (Ewell drums, synths, bass; Maatman vocals, synths, organ; O'Dell vocals, guitar, organ; Trainor guitar, bass, synths) wanted to get harder, dancier, more psychedelic for their next record. This meant applying explorative potentials of electronic textures to the elemental qualities of rock i.e. more vocal loops, sampling, more crazy rhythms, and playful synths - but make those samples of Trainor's guitar, let Maatman sing bolder, experiment with using cold mechanical elements in warm and sparkly ways, and lean harder into traditional-yet-still-awesome forms of rock guitar experimentation like feedback. The result is a record that celebrates music's ability to move the body, whether that be through a teeth-rattling wall of MBV-esque noise, a sticky pop chorus, or a joyous drum machine-or, if you're Dummy, maybe all of them in the same song.Pop music has always been a big part of Dummy's sound and it manifests in different ways all over Free Energy the bubbly synth sequence made with a Korg EM1 popping all over InchNullspace,Inch the revved-up drone-pop inspired by second and third wave Dunedin Sound bands like Look Blue Go Purple and Dadamah, and the motorik beat powering InchNine Clean Nails,Inch perhaps the most confidently pop song Dummy has ever recorded and one that exemplifies Free Energy's balancing of live performance intensity with

Guitar o'erlord Sir Richard Bishop 'one guitar, six strings, no overdubs, 7/8ths improvised, 1/8 composed' are the terms for a faux vol 2 of inspired modal post-grass recitals, inherited recollections and new national anthems, a psychotic mash of uninherited recollection. Are y'all ready for some Hillbilly Erotica? RIYL Doc Watson, Ricky Skaggs, Bill Orcutt

2015 from the singer/guitarist best known for his work with the Sun City Girls. Nobody plays the guitar like Sir Richard Bishop - and on Tangier Sessions, he's found a guitar that nobody but him plays either. Tangier Sessions tells the oft-told tale while traveling abroad, nobleman meets guitar. Guitar is too expensive for nobleman and outraged, he departs. Nobleman quietly returns several days later for guitar but still can't bring himself to pay the price. Yet nobleman can't get guitar out of mind (he's never heard anything like it) - so nobleman buys guitar, then travels the world with it, enchanted, and makes this album while in Tangier.