We are honored to have David Dondero appear on this week’s episode of NPR’s All Songs Considered. His single “Easy Chair”, from his latest LP, The Filter Bubble Blues, was featured. Give it a listen here, and then pick up the LP.
We’ve still got a few Limited Edition White LPs at the Fluff and Gravy Store, along with black LPs, cds, and digital formats.
What a day… Not only do we get to announce that we will be working with anti-folk hero David Dondero to release his upcoming LP, The Filter Bubble Blues, (due January 17), we get to spring the first single on you today!
“The Presidential Palace of Pornography” is the first single, and it pretty much sums up the whole record in a nutshell. It’s a doo wop parody of headlines since the 2016 election in America, a prozac infested fifties, sixties , and 70’s rock style classic. Check out this Intergalactic cross-genre hit single, on the new sensation, Spotify, today!#1 in Nashville, New York, LA, San Francisco, Portland, Atlanta and Chicago, and 82 countries. A real life international diamond lane smoker.
The album itself is a biting, wary, heartbroken and sometimes hilarious sendup of the dumpster fire that is modern American political theatre and identity politics. Songs of a place hellbent on robbing itself of the last vestiges of what once made it great–or could’ve made it great if there had ever been any truth in it.
Dondero challenged himself with the difficult task of writing thought provoking songs during volatile political times in which most people in America appear to be living in increased isolation, modern convenience, information overload, and entrenched political beliefs. The result is Dondero at his best, full of the brilliant wordplay and craft listeners have come to expect. His voice calmer and steadier, while still full of emotional intensity. On every track you feel like you are in the room with him and that we are in this together, even if seems we are wandering lost and self-sidelined at this point in history. What else is one of the “best living songwriters” to do in these times?
Available January 17 on Limited Edition “eyeball” or white vinyl, as well as classic black LP or silver CD. Pre-order here!