WILL JOHNSON – El Capitn – LP – Dusklight Coloured Vinyl

LABEL: Keeled Scales

CAT NO: KS048LPC1

BARCODE: 0682604703480

Tracklisting:

Side A

1. Teruel
2. Los Cuervos
3. Goodbye, Absecon
4. Bloody Boxer
5. El Capitan
6. Bricks To Block The Raid..

Side B

1. I Am Back At The Window Again
2. Dear To The Assassin
3. Trouble
4. Ocean/Sea
5. Inclined
6. St. Anthonys

WILL JOHNSON El Capitn

LP Dusklight Coloured Vinyl

El Capitn is Will Johnsons 7th studio album, released less than a year after Wire Mountain. While this is acollection of songs written on the road, theyre given a polished studio treatment, albeit a bit more subdued and restrained than Wire Mountain. El Capitn is Johnsons second album with the carefully-curated Austin label Keeled Scales and his third recorded with Britton Beisenherz at his Austin studio Ramble Creek Recording. Heres Will Johnson with how the album came together: This newrecord started years ago at a friends dining room table in Portland, building up on long desert drives, in hotel bathrooms, at casino bars, and on these regular runs. Over years, the songs mortared themselves together into something I thought fit together. Some are now quite old, and a couple are pandemic-new. It feels like were at the mercy of nature now more than ever, and the quietude of this patch of time made sense to document them and finally get them out. I took a hundred-dollar Stella guitar to my friend, Brittons, and we spent three days, distanced, building something. We let go of old habits, peeled things back, and tracked it all to a Tascam 388. We ate tacos, drank Tecate and found happiness in the act of moving again in the early summer heat. Theres tape hiss, and there are imperfections. Thor Harris and Lindsey Verrill contributed beautifully from afar.