Izaak Opatz - Extra Medium [CD]

Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Like many of his favorite songwriters (John Hartford, Lucinda Williams, Jeff Tweedy),Izaak Opatz is an ungulate in life's winter pasture, chewing on and metabolizingdisappointment, heartbreak, and the other tough stuff into enjoyable musicalcarbohydrates. A compulsive metaphorager (and inveterate wordplayboy), Opatzbreaks it all down with enzymes of wry humor, thoughtful simile and close observation -a therapeutic process of narrativizing his own life that, almost as a byproduct, turns outsavory nuggets of literate, confessional pop.Where 2018's 'Mariachi Static' drew from Opatz's fragmented love life as a seasonalPark Service employee and resonated especially with the sensitive dirtbag set, 'ExtraMedium', his latest release, splits time between romantic Hindenburgs across his nativeMontana, up the East Coast, and in faraway Los Angeles. Montana and LA especiallydecorate the album, supplying wells of metaphor and scene-making, and as charactersin their own right - LA's alternately charming ('In the Light of a Love Affair') anddiscomfiting ('East of Barstow'), and, in 'Big Sandy', Montana evolves from setting tosubject as the girl's feelings he traverses it to see prove less than his own feelings forthe state.In LA, Opatz learned from and worked alongside Jonny Fritz at Dad Country Leather,and met bandmates and 'Extra Medium' collaborators Malachi DeLorenzo (drums,producer, engineer) and Dylan Rodrigue (multi-instrumentalist, producer). He now livesin Missoula, Montana, where he runs his own custom leather shop, is writing the nextalbum, and getting ready to pursue a Journalism degree at the U of M.

Passenger Seat

Chinook Wind

Handholder

You Don't Look at Me the Same

Big Sandy

Wild-Eyed George Bailey Heebie Jeebies

Married with Kids

East of Barstow

Blue Pilot

Mag-Lev Train

Shampoo

In the Light of a Love Affair

• Genre: Rock
• Product Type: AUDIO CD
• Barcode: 196626419958

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