Bobby Lee - Endless Skyways LP NEW
Bobby Lee - Endless Skyways LP
NEW. SEALED.
Tompkins Square Records
Endless Skyways is Bobby Leeâs third full album and second release on Tompkins Square. Returning to the full band sound of his debut, the name âEndless Skywaysâ is borrowed from a line in Woody Guthrieâs This Land Is Your Land, one of the cornerstones of American music. That songâs mix of the terrestrial (âribbons of highwayâ) and celestial consciousness encapsulates Leeâs brand of widescreen cosmic americana; a duality also evident in the albumâs split between deep-fried rural rock and ambient country. Dusty boots but third eye open.
Opener and lead single âReds For A Blue Planetâ inhabits a geographically different realm to any of Leeâs previous work, equal parts Michael Chapmanâs Anglo-Primitivism and Tinariwenâs desert-choogle. Slowdive/Mojave 3âs Ian McCutcheon turns in a muscular drum performance, with just a hint of sleng-teng creeping into Mark Armstrongâs bassline. The title hints at an ecological frustration which radiates through the taut, spiraling, modal grooves.
Origin Mythsâ âImpregnated by Drops of Rainbowâ is revisited here in full band garb, shifting gear from the 117 seconds of skeletal krautrock into almost 7 minutes of soaring Kosmiche Country, complete with a glistening pedal steel solo from Joe Harvey-Whyte. Neu Riders of The Purple Sage, if you will.
âThunder Travels To Loftier Mountain Heightsâ is a gradually evolving waking dream of gently chugging tremolo and delicate interplay between Piano (a rare foray away from the drums from Guy Whittaker) and Fender Rhodes, redolent of Brightblack Morning Light, or Spirit of Eden-era Talk Talk. Picture the scene; a gang of slow movinâ outlaws briefly glimpsing eternity after a rare downpour in the desert. McCutcheonâs drums echo through the canyons and out into spaceâŠ
The woozy swamp rock of âAcid Grasslandâ is a return to more familiar territory for Bobby; an ancient drum machine moseys along with a loping groove and riff straight outta Cosmoâs Factory. Joe Harvey-Whyte appears again with the most fuzzed-out pedal steel this side of Sneaky Pete on âChristineâs Tuneâ.
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Bobby Lee - Endless Skyways LP
NEW. SEALED.
Tompkins Square Records
Endless Skyways is Bobby Leeâs third full album and second release on Tompkins Square. Returning to the full band sound of his debut, the name âEndless Skywaysâ is borrowed from a line in Woody Guthrieâs This Land Is Your Land, one of the cornerstones of American music. That songâs mix of the terrestrial (âribbons of highwayâ) and celestial consciousness encapsulates Leeâs brand of widescreen cosmic americana; a duality also evident in the albumâs split between deep-fried rural rock and ambient country. Dusty boots but third eye open.
Opener and lead single âReds For A Blue Planetâ inhabits a geographically different realm to any of Leeâs previous work, equal parts Michael Chapmanâs Anglo-Primitivism and Tinariwenâs desert-choogle. Slowdive/Mojave 3âs Ian McCutcheon turns in a muscular drum performance, with just a hint of sleng-teng creeping into Mark Armstrongâs bassline. The title hints at an ecological frustration which radiates through the taut, spiraling, modal grooves.
Origin Mythsâ âImpregnated by Drops of Rainbowâ is revisited here in full band garb, shifting gear from the 117 seconds of skeletal krautrock into almost 7 minutes of soaring Kosmiche Country, complete with a glistening pedal steel solo from Joe Harvey-Whyte. Neu Riders of The Purple Sage, if you will.
âThunder Travels To Loftier Mountain Heightsâ is a gradually evolving waking dream of gently chugging tremolo and delicate interplay between Piano (a rare foray away from the drums from Guy Whittaker) and Fender Rhodes, redolent of Brightblack Morning Light, or Spirit of Eden-era Talk Talk. Picture the scene; a gang of slow movinâ outlaws briefly glimpsing eternity after a rare downpour in the desert. McCutcheonâs drums echo through the canyons and out into spaceâŠ
The woozy swamp rock of âAcid Grasslandâ is a return to more familiar territory for Bobby; an ancient drum machine moseys along with a loping groove and riff straight outta Cosmoâs Factory. Joe Harvey-Whyte appears again with the most fuzzed-out pedal steel this side of Sneaky Pete on âChristineâs Tuneâ.
