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| Track Listing: 1. The New Science 2. Jordanna 3. Instead 4. Cindy 5. Photo Booth 6. Run Off the Road 7. Day at the Beach 8. Lost and Found 9. A Clouded View 10. Pour Me Another 11. Eastbound |
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| David Wingo (Brooklyn, NY/Austin, TX) has been the soundtrack to Southern lives for years- literally. As the composer behind the scores for David Gordon Green's films (George Washington, All the Real Girls), Wingo framed the onscreen images with beautiful, complementary arrangements, hitting all the right emotional notes. This background in scoring shines through in his solo project, Ola Podrida. To describe this music as cinematic is an understatement. Ola Podrida's songs are aural Polaroids of fleeting feelings, places, and people. Lushly evocative, these are moments in motion, breathing life into sepia-toned memories. This simply cannot be a passive listening experience- the songs work their way into your daily routine and become part of you. Take "Jordanna." Built on a subtle acoustic backbone, images are painted of an alcohol-fueled sing-along in a Cathedral. Jordanna's name is wistfully sung. As the song reaches a fever pitch, horseshoe percussion clicking along and flutes fluttering, we're transported there, to that church, wearily whispering the name of a girl we don't even know. Ola Podrida fills the album with these little moments, making even subtle gestures feel grand. "Lost and Found" opens with the lyric "The car crashed," and when the drums and guitar kick right in, you feel the collision. As the title character of "Cindy" watches her house burn to the ground, the music smokes and smolders, rising to a driving, electric climax. The multi-tracked vocals and jangling tambourine on "Day At the Beach" blow the sea-soaked wind through your speakers, while Wingo's bittersweet recollections evoke an overcast day. By album's end, you have spent a night partying and foolin' around, met unforgettable women, drowned your sorrows in booze, watched relationships flower and collapse, and moved away from your hometown and your past. Very few albums are able to provide such a visceral and moving experience, but under the watchful eye of Wingo, these words and sounds ascend to those heights. Once this album finds its way into your house, it will find a home in your life: "Jordanna" was playing when you shared that first kiss with your new partner, "Lost and Found" was the soundtrack to your cross-country road trip, "Run off the Road"... well, you get the idea. Get ready to feel giddy about a piece of music again. |
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