Shearwater, Wye Oak, Lucky Dragons on Esopus Comp
Semiannual arts mag Esopus has its 11th issue back from the presses and ready to ship, and with a new issue of Esopus comes a new themed compilation.
Esopus 11: Advice features 11 songs, each written with a piece of advice as its inspiration. The sources are as diverse as radio DJs, Billy Graham, and "Savage Love", and the tunes come from Shearwater, Wye Oak, Lucky Dragons, Stuart Dahlquist, Jenny Owen Youngs, the Muslims, and the Wingdale Community Singers (aka author Rick Moody, artist Nina Katchadourian, and musical types David Grubbs and Hannah Marcus), among others.
Advice follows previous Esopus comps themed after good news and dreams.
To order Esopus 11 and see links to all of the compilation's source material, visit esopusmag.com.
Esopus 11: Advice:
01 The Muslims: "Inside Job"
02 Shearwater: "Helix"
03 Wye Oak: "In Defense of Fetish"
04 Brazos: "Passenger"
05 FACA: "Two Tango"
06 Nina Katchadourian: "Castaway"
07 Lucky Dragons: "To Lilly at Age 15 20 25"
08 Jenny Owen Youngs: "Thanks, Mesopotamia!"
09 The Wingdale Community Singers: "Never Ever Fall"
10 Come Rad Comrade: "Spinning Us Around"
11 Stuart Dahlquist: "New World Order Rising"
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