we last visited mr. beal a couple months back. well, his album came out a couple weeks ago, and the initial press is ready to embrace him as their current hipster darling.

here's a track from the album, with more analysis after the break.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7mdtSlgkN8
 
 

i picked the album up about a week ago, and i've gone through it several times. i'm still undecided, but i'm pretty sure i like it. i was expecting a studio album, but that it's not. these are basically little lo-fi demos, but don't let that alone discourage you. they're more little captured moments in time. if the articles are to be believed, beal's had an interesting journey. he supposedly recorded hundreds of tracks over the past few years, and this album is the sum equation of it all.

i've had a small amount of experience with home recordings, and while i'll make sure they never see the light of day, the songs are still portraits of the nights they were recorded, and backdrop of the individual eras of my life just behind it. this album kind of has a feel of the selective release of some of those moments (while the live version of this track doesn't really convey that, try the album version).

beyond that, the tom waits aspirations of mr. beal are definitely apparent, but also something that is uniquely his own as the foundation. i'm looking forward to seeing what will come next.

CC to AMR: for some reason, i think you'll go nuts for this.

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