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ARTIST
PAPA M
TITLE
Ballads of Harry Houdini
FORMAT
LP
LABEL
DRAG CITY
CATALOG #
DC 845LP
DC 845LP
GENRE
ROCK
RELEASE DATE
11/22/2024
"
Papa M
is back, and he's talking 'bout
Harry Houdini
. This time, with a fresh, fine and fat-assed set of songs. Sometimes you never know when it comes to Papa M and his ol' left-shoulder angel,
David Christian Pajo
. After
Slint
's disbandment, he whiled away the '90s playing with literally everybody who asked, pausing long enough here and there to start his own band, called
M
. Two epic/classic albums and a forbiddingly large outstretched palm of singles (eventually collected into another epic full-length) later, David was looking a bit green around the gills. It'd been five years of Papa-ing off; time to do something/anything else for a while. Twelve long years go by before he sends in
Highway Songs
. Now comes
Ballads of Harry Houdini
. Following the path of M records from Aerial to Papa, (the just-released
The Peel Sessions
excepted!) David recorded
Ballads of Harry Houdini
on his own, receding deep inside himself and taking the time for ideas new and old, from soup to nuts, et al. Having his fun before spitting it all out onto the world -- setting down some tracks, getting lit, grabbing a guitar, getting a sound going, and soloing over 'em! With a bit of singing here and there too. Everything that's meant to be in the picture is in there. The shit that isn't, isn't. Frankly, the amount of hip-shaking sleaze oozing out of these pieces blows the idea that these are simple ad-hoc assemblies right the FUNK out of the water. Sure, when David does blues scaling, he sounds a little like
Billy Gibbons
. But then there's the insistent torn-n-fucked delirium that's accompanied every Papa M expression into the marketplace (with pride) since 1999. As ever, it's mixed extra-crispy, with earworms and easter eggs and lots of other surprising shit that's bound to change your whole personality. And so it is and so it does.
Ballads of Harry Houdini
: it can make you dance, sing or anything."
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