Howdy folks, today is the official release of our new CD "Fault Lines and Good Times"! We put a couple of the songs up for you to listen to so enjoy! Here is the write up of the album...we hope to see you at a show soon!
PORKCHOP EXPRESS SLOWS DOWN TO PRODUCE LATEST ALBUM
San Francisco alt-country band Porkchop Express explore gunslinging
brides, alien abductions, and earthquake preparedness with their fourth
release, FAULT LINES AND GOOD TIMES.
This ten-song album is their most far-reaching musical and thematic
effort to date, bolstered by new member Sarah Nelson’s violin and
background vocals. Musically, the album continues Porkchop’s trajectory
of deliberately mottled arrangements and masterful vocals. From the
guitar-drenched “Banjolero” and “Not That Type of Girl,” to the
propulsive fiddle work on “Christicles” and heavy bass groove of “I
Shot My Wife
(Again),” this California band mines new depths in their
melodies and country twang.
The result of over two years of intermittent studio work, the songs
cover terrain both serious and funny – the thematic throughline being a
series of disasters or momentous events. In the last two years, the
band members experienced hook-ups, break-ups, weddings, births; some of
the best songs deal with the realities of growing older.
There's a
darkness lurking around the corners of some songs. The angelic
background vocals of Kitt Thompson and Sarah Nelson wash serenely over
the gritty, bad boy tale of "Bones of Glory," a song inspired by a
friend who went from band inspiration to self ruination. The song
combines toughness with tenderness; there's a lonesomeness in the twang
that's quietly soulful.
Still, the band stays true to character, with their tongue-in-cheek
delivery of strange facets of Americana. Listen to the honky-tonk
pianos in “Bourbon and Bile,” the lazy summer vibe of “Crop Circle
Waltz” (about a narrator so heartbroken he’s wishing for aliens to
abduct him), and the sweet faux-tropicalia of the ukulele line in the
title track “Fault Lines and Good Times” – it’s mongrel, alt-country
goodness at its best.
Track List:
Banjolero
Not That Type of Girl
Christicles
Bourbon and Bile
Fault Lines and Good Times
Crop Circle Waltz
Bones of Glory
Vacation
I Shot my Wife (Again)
War Woot