We’re nonetheless having fun with the Southern latitudes and pastel breezes of Joshua Ray Walker’s newest report Tropicana that simply dropped in June. Walker takes inspiration from nation music seaside songs of the Y2K radio period and makes a surprisingly stellar and unusually genius album. For individuals who stumbled upon it, songs like “Tacoma” and “I Don’t Wanna Be Alone” have turn into their summer time jams for positive.
However after not too long ago battling Most cancers, Joshua Ray Walker had ample time to put in writing and report an entire host of fabric, and to ponder issues in life none of us ought to need to in our youthful years. That is the inspiration for his new, upcoming album merely entitled Stuff. Although it’s formally the second album in a three-album trilogy, don’t count on it to be Tropicana 2.0.
An idea album, Stuff finds Walker imagining the interior lives of inanimate objects one would possibly discover at an property sale after the passing of a person. Taking a way more folks and indie strategy in comparison with his earlier albums, it was recorded with producer John Pedigo in his yard studio, solely taking part in devices discovered within the studio, together with toy reed organs, a melodica, and random impromptu percussion devices.
Most significantly although, it’s a deeper exploration of Joshua Ray Walker’s formidable songwriting that noticed him make many followers from his first trilogy of albums outlining characters in a bar/honky tonk scene. Specializing in the objects we go away behind in demise, it allowed Walker the power to discover the very actual mortality he was going through down throughout his Most cancers therapy.
“Each my grandparents discovered worth in issues that had life left in them,” Walker says. “On the time of writing these songs, I used to be actually hoping that I had a second shot, some extra life left in me, and I feel that I projected that on a variety of these characters.”
It’d all sound like an uncommon premise and strategy for a report. But when Tropicana taught us something, it’s to belief within the imaginative and prescient, creativeness, songwriting, and the robust emotive voice of Joshua Ray Walker. Regardless of how experimental and avant-garde one thing would possibly seem on paper, Walker finds a solution to weave it into one thing intriguing, and interesting.
Stuff will probably be launched on October seventeenth by way of East Dallas Information / Thirty Tigers, however the title observe is obtainable now.
After we first heard about Walker’s Most cancers prognosis and feared the worst, it was as a result of we knew what he was able to an artist, and we didn’t need to lose that. He’s not taking something without any consideration, or utilizing his new lease on life to relaxation. He’s benefiting from each second amid a artistic bust he’s attempting to seize in music type.
Stuff is now accessible for pre-save.
TRACK LIST:
1. Stuff
2. Brick
3. Barbie
4. Fragrance
5. Bowling Ball
6. Swimsuit
7. Shears
8. Phone
9. Radio (Cuchiarella / Banjo / Magic Set)
10. Dwelling
