Nick Waterhouse – Fooler
- Label:
- Pres, Innovative Leisure
- Art.Nr.:
- 09553327
- Kat.Nr.:
- IL-2100
- Released:
- 2023
- Cover:
- Picture
- Format:
- LP
- Pressung:
- US - Original
- Genre:
- Pop + Pop & Various + Rock / Indie + Soul + Funk + Classic Rock
The title of the sixth album from Californian singer-songwriter Nick Waterhouse is more than just the name of one of its tracks. The Fooler is both a clue and a red herring. The Fooler is the observed and the observer, narrator and subject, truth and lie. The Fooler is the shadow and reflection of a city the artist knows sufficiently well to wander with his eyes closed, and a place which very possibly never even existed. The Fooler is not so much an unreliable narrator as a constantly shifting perspective.
The Fooler is the new album by Nick Waterhouse, and it’s a lot. Recorded by Mark Neill (Black Keys; Los Straightjackets; Dave Cobb) in Valdosta, Georgia, it’s a song-cycle of sorts, the arc of the album telling a tale of a city and its denizens.
The result is a record that offers up new riches and fresh perspectives with every spin. From the hidden corners of ‘Hide & Seek’ and the roadhouse soul of ‘Play To Win’ to the primitive, attitudinal, chugging two-chord thrill of ‘Late In The Garden’, it builds inexorably to the drama of the title track and pulsing roll-and-rock of the final pay off, ‘Unreal, Immaterial’. Play it once and it sounds immediately like a collection of great songs. Play it again – and you will – and it feels like a novel or film slowly unveiling its secrets, kaleidoscopic in its narrative complexity. “Especially during this record, I started just becoming what Allen Ginsberg called a pure breath,” says the artist. “I was becoming pure breath with my ideas.”
Titel | Featuring | Producing | Länge | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1. | Looking for a place | ||||
A2. | Hide and seek | ||||
A3. | (no) commitment | ||||
A4. | Play to win | ||||
A5. | Was it you | ||||
A6. | Late in the garden | ||||
B1. | The problem with a street | ||||
B2. | Plan for leaving | ||||
B3. | Are you hurting | ||||
B4. | It was the style | ||||
B5. | The fooler | ||||
B6. | Unreal, immaterial |
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