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Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards
Johnny Manchild and the Poor Bastards have recently released their new album Rapture Waltz, to celebrate the album they are heading out on tour and playing on May 2 at Cafe Nine with special guests HOLDFAST.
Stream Rapture Waltz at your favorite platform here: https://orcd.co/61xbk1k
Johnny shares, “Rapture Waltz is a record about isolation, loss, and life changes. I experienced so many things through my mid-twenties, from pandemic, to heartbreak, and moving across the country. These songs are just my process of working through those things in the best way I know how to, and I hope they do something for you, or at the very least that you enjoy them. This album was written and recorded and performed with so many great people and great musicians, and it serves as a snapshot of my life during this time, and one that I'll always be grateful for. Thanks for listening”.
Recorded at the famed, now-shuttered Prairie Sun Studios in Northern California with Grammy-nominated Wes Sharon [Greg Allman, Doobie Brothers, John Fullbright, Turnpike Troubadours], the genre-bending songs on Rapture Waltz cover a wide palette. They range from piano ballads like the Beatlesque “Better Unsaid” to a Red Hot Chili Peppers’ rhythmic funk-rock and Metallica precision speed-metal found on “Polarity”. Then there’s the ‘90s-era “fuck off” emo to former associates in “So Much Better”, sometimes it’s all happening within a single song, as in the opening track, “Fake Me Out,” an interior monologue that explores Johnny’s own lifelong battle with bipolarity.
Watch the video for “Fake Me Out” here: https://youtu.be/xDKSbsgbqFI?si=1uKWtxLWFv_a6m1j
Another highlight is the swirling Wurlitzer organ and pumping stride piano on “Beyond Me”. Johnny’s lyrics paint a dark view of these pre-apocalyptic, post-lockdown times, while still offering a ray of hope, as in “Oh, Songbird,” with its Clash-like martial punk warning of imminent disaster. See the video here: https://youtu.be/3no4iiUzdww?feature=shared
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Tickets: https://go.evvnt.com/2387530-0
