Release Date: 11 December 2020
Label: Mashed Potato Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 877746002953
Release Date: 11 December 2020
Label: Mashed Potato Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 877746002953
Description
Duff Thompson is a songwriter, producer, recording engineer, and co-founder of New Orleans-based label Mashed Potato Records. His debut album 'Haywire' is a swampy blend of folk, pop, and garage rock that is thoroughly modern, classic, and timeless. Recorded over the course of three years, the album features the contributions of over a dozen musicians, including - Sam Doores (Hurray For the Riff Raff, The Deslondes), and Kinsey Lee (The Wild Reeds).
There is a level of craftsmanship demonstrated in Thompson's songwriting that is rarely come by, as is the special attention he gives to arrangement on these songs. Each track is its own living world, tied together by a distinctive overall aesthetic. Strings, clarinet, and steel guitar accompany a Slim Whitman-esque lullaby followed by muddy, howling, live-to-tape garage rock. Meanwhile, extravagant pop ballads are contrasted by stripped-down guitar-and-story folk. Thompson's sincere, expressive, and singular voice threads together an odyssey of an album that makes for a familiar, strange, moving, and exciting debut.
Tracklisting
Duff Thompson
Steph Green
Various Artists
Various Artists
Sux Sux Sux
Movie Movie
Fleur
The Emperors
The Emperors
The Streets
The Fuzztones
Various Artists