‘Friedleggings’ by Lumberob | New Album, ‘Language Learner’
Exclusive video premiere of ‘Friedleggings’, the final single off Lumberob’s forthcoming debut LP, ‘Language Learner’, due February 18, 2022 via Shimmy-Disc/Joyful Noise Recordings.
Speaking on the single, Rob wrote: “Move out the way now. This high-brow squeaky tweeker goes giggly, jumps bad, turns wiggly. It’s a picture of pleasure, this mixture we measure in bumps & grinds. I say move something, this bouncy build, this grilled cheese and ‘Friedleggings’. Whisper their name as you doodle their smile. Get close, now closer, you messy microdoser. It’s a visual form, this tweeky squeaker.”
Lumberob began as a solo looping concept project in late 1999 in Austin, Texas, way before looping was a genre. The work was raw and spastic. It was a simple show, a vocal show: a mic run through an Octave pedal and a Fuzz Factory into an AKAI Headrush looper. Always illegible, the loops were guttural, choppy, vocal noise – direct and live, always wholly improvised and never ever ever using pre-slugged playback. Just do a YouTube search for Lumberob and see for yourself. There’s plenty to see.
And now, ‘Language Learner’ has arrived. It is Lumberob’s debut LP, mixed & mastered by Kramer.
Having collaborated now for over 23 years, Kramer and Lumberob understand each other. They also understand how to create a majestic avalanche of sound. This music is urgent madness, at times overflowingly decorative, at times lusciously spastic, with an unpredictably eclectic sonic vaudeville energy. Call it Dada Ska. Call it Circus Soul. Call it Rob & Roll. Call it whatever you like.
In Kramer’s own words, “Few musicians and their music have inspired me over the course of decades like Lumberrob has, and few performance artists have inspired the kind of awe in me that just takes my breath away, over and over and over again. Onstage, there is no one to compare him to. You can’t take your eyes off of him, and you leave his performances with your ears glued to him forever.”
This is dance music for working things out! This is workout music for dancing things out! Sign up soon! Teacher training! Get certified! Now is the time for ‘Language Learner’ – a bold exercise in genre discovery and genre blur, proudly assuming its position in high contrast to several other recent and gorgeously crafted Shimmy-Disc releases. It is this contrast that’s reminiscent of the wildly divergent and inventive catalog curated by Kramer from decades past.
Photo by Joanne Leah
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