Brion Starr - 2020 (clear vinyl with silver streaks)

TAXI GAUCHE

£16.07

Format: LP
Catalogue No.: TGR022
Barcode: 0765453480655
Release Date: 12 Nov 2021
Genre: Artrock/ Glampop

Limited edtion clear vinyl with silver streaks

This is the first of two albums to be released by Brion Starr over the next month, the second of which is produced by the legend that is Tony Visconti

On 2020, the first full length album recorded at the infamous Chateau d’Herouville in France since its closure in 1985, Starr explores a year which none of us will soon forget.

Starr says of the album “I feel like this is us at our most blunt, I certainly haven’t felt very poetic this last year.
I’ve been writing about what is right in front of me and have chosen to eschew beauty for the raw reality of what has been happening in NYC this year.”

2020 is a genre hopping, time traveling whirlwind with heavy depth and impeccable range which is set very firmly in the surreal and manic time we are living in. The music and lyrics found within equal the surreal with the subtly psychedelic, the manic with a frantic talent.

About Brion Starr:
To qualify Brion Starr as a rock artist would be missing the point, an auteur in the deepest sense, the singer/songwriter makes records which stitch together familiar sounds from each generation past back to the dawn of popular music without ever crossing the fine line of retro-nostalgia, it sounds new while also accessing memories of something from your past that never actually happened, some band you’ve heard before that never actually existed or perhaps did on some alternate timeline.
Starr continues the complex derivation through the ages which was started on previous albums Global Identity (2018) and Rope Memories (2019) like a time traveler sent back to serenade us into a trance, once fallen under the spell of these melodies, hooks, and lyrics you become helpless, they embed themselves in your mind until you find yourself humming the tunes and wondering how you got here.

For fans of:
David Bowie, Lou Reed, Shintaro Sakamoto, La Femme, Roxy Music

Tracklist:
1) Wild Time 2) Sally Slow Down 3) Funny Thing 4) O Lucky Man! 5) All My Friends 6) Everyday Ending 7) What Would John Cage Do 8) Anything We Want To Be 9) Fantastic Voyage 10) Save You 11) 2020