Talent Night At The Ashram

Sonny & The Sunsets

SKU: 0644110028815

Barcode: 0644110028815

14.00 £14.00
  • Genre: Rock And Pop
  • Label: Polyvinyl
  • Released Date: 23rd March 2015
  • Buying Format:
    180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl Includes Download Code

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Initially envisioned as a film project, each song on Talent Night at the Ashram was originally a short film that, when strung together, formed a feature-length movie. Equal parts Fellini and Os Mutantes, it is cinematic in its storytelling and kaleidoscopic in its mixing and merging of musical genres. ‘60s folk, electric sitars, flutes, and myriad other sounds help accentuate tales of professional bowlers in desperate need of a strike (“Icelene’s Loss”), a mansion that houses every woman Smith has ever known (“The Secluded Estate”), and Occupy meetings ending in bad love (“Secret Plot to Destroy the Underground”). Recording was a communal effort mostly done at Smith’s home on this tape machine with musicians such as Shayde Sartin (The Fresh & Onlys), Garret Goddard (King Tuff), Kelley Stoltz, Rusty Miller, Ian McBrayer, and more. Talent Night at the Ashram finds Smith once again securing his status as one of today’s most arrestingly inventive songwriters. “Sonny Smith’s endlessly prolific San Francisco psychpop band Sonny And The Sunsets crank out loopy, fun, lofi tunes at scary rates” – Stereogum

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Track Listings

A1 The Applictaion
A2 Cheap Extensions
A3 The Secluded Estate
A4 Talent Night At The Ashram
A5 Alice Leaves For The Mountains

B1 Happy Carrot Health Food Store
B2 Blot Out The Sun
B3 Baby Jokin
B4 Icelenes Loss
B5 Secret Plot

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