King For A Day
Thrill Jockey
INDIE
Self-delusion is the American dream. BOBBY CONN has given us songs for ‘The Homeland’ and ‘The Golden Age’; ‘ King for a Day’ is Bobby’s ode to self-delusion. It is the definitive Bobby Conn record. And it's all based on true stories.
To tell you some more about the record, over to Bobby himself ........ "The new album is about my desperate attempt to lose myself in a candy-coloured fantasyland of freaks and fairies. It's an urge that I think lots of us share, especially these days as the real world is getting increasingly grim. This record is kind of my "Don Quixote." I conceived the whole record as a soundtrack for grainy, blurry movie along the lines of Kenneth Anger or Jodorovsky (or perhaps a bad VHS tape dub of these films). The album starts with an 8-minute epic with strings, a choir singing in Latin, a blinding, atonal guitar solo and birds singing before the dawn. There are psychedelic interludes and instrumental passages between more conventional "pop" songs, and the album ends with a triumphant/tragic piano ballad. I see the poppier songs as movie musical numbers, and the others as incidental music for ritual and montage, and soon the record will be the soundtrack to it's own movie."
We can safely say there is no one quite like Chicago's Bobby Conn !
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