Compositional Rock that's been compared to Elliott Smith, Frank Zappa, Fiery Furnaces, and Queens of the Stone Age

14 MP3 Songs in this album (51:07) !
Related styles: ROCK: Album Rock, POP: Quirky

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Reattachment is the new album from singer-songwriter, composer, and guitarist Dan Wallace. Over the course of 14 songs, Wallace applies his always colorful lyricism and sophisticated musicality to themes of loss, nostalgia, fantasy, and ...decapitation. âMusic for fans of the unexpectedâ is his record labelâs mantra, and, as usual, Wallace delivers on that promise with this new album. He also plays some wicked guitar solos.

Long-time band member George Lawler brings his energetic drumming to the more rockinâ songs that comprise roughly half the album, while the other half is mostly made up of intimately recorded acoustic numbers featuring classical and steel string guitars.

Wallace explains, âI wanted to put out an album that uses simple rock instrumentation to get across a wide variety of musical ideas and colors. Whether it be an epic indie pop-rock tune with neo-prog undertones like âInvisible Linesâ, or a stripped-down acoustic ballad such as âEasy Come Easy Goâ, I rarely needed to go far beyond guitars, drums and a couple of synths. Although I did play a Pyrex Corningware bowl for the chorus of the closing song.â

âInstrumentation aside,â Wallace continues, âthis album means a lot to me because it represents the culmination of an eight-year period of reclusive writing and recording following a particularly dark period in my life. I have vivid ideas for future music, but for now Iâm just going to enjoy promoting Reattachment. Iâll also need some time to recuperate because making this one took a lot out of me.â

The album art, as with Wallaceâs last three albums, is by award-winning artist Vesna Jovanovic. Inspired by the lyrics and concept of the albumâs title track, it portrays a future representation of a four-thousand-year-old amnesiac-decapitation-survivor who's trying to discern the difference between paranoia and intuition.