Angelo De Augustine - Toil and Trouble [Coloured Vinyl]

Format: LP, Coloured
Catalogue No.: AKR152lp-C1
Barcode: 729920165803
Release Date: 30 Jun 2023
Genre: Alternative

The fourth solo album from Angelo De Augustine, Toil and Trouble exists according to its own quixotic logic, inhabiting a psychic landscape as sublimely mystifying as a fever dream or fairy tale. In creating such an all-enveloping body of work, the Southern California-based artist spent nearly three years working alone and exploring the vast expanse of his imagination. “This album came from thinking about the madness of the world right now and how overwhelming that can be,” says De Augustine. “I used a sort of counter-world as a guide to try to gain some understanding of what’s actually going on here—I had to take myself out of reality in order to try to understand reality.” At turns bewitching and devastating and ineffably lovely, the result is the most visionary work yet from a singular songwriter, revealing his profound capacity to alchemize pain into extraordinary beauty.

TRACK LISTING
Song Title Duration Side
1 Home Town 00:03:09 A
2 The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill 00:03:15 A
3 Memory Palace 00:04:03 A
4 Healing Waters 00:01:23 A
5 The Painter 00:03:13 A
6 I Don't Want to Live, I Don't Want to Die 00:04:32 A
7 Another Universe 00:02:43 B
8 Song of the Siren 00:03:13 B
9 Blood Red Thorn 00:03:34 B
10 Naked Blade 00:03:34 B
11 D.W.O.M.M. 00:03:28 B
12 Toil and Trouble 00:02:24 B

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