Indie-Folk Pop IN TALL BUILDINGS Release New Album AKINETIC
By: Macon Prickett Mar. 02, 2018
In Tall Buildings, aka Chicago songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall, has released his new album, Akinetic on Western Vinyl. Produced alongside Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine, Califone) at Hall's Chicago home studio, Akinetic yields ten new tracks of spacious and textured handmade pop, plunging headlong into allegories of communication, loss, impulse, vice, and mass-denialism.
Hall wrote and recorded Akinetic between stints producing records for label mates Lean Year and ambient artist Justin Walter. A venerable one-man ensemble, Hall performed every instrument heard on the album with the exception of a lovely guest vocal appearance from Heather Woods Broderick and occasional looming woodwinds from Elliot Bergman (NOMO, Wild Belle). With the addition of a kindred and veteran co-producer in Deck, Akinetic is one of the most sharply written and deftly recorded home-studio albums in memory, and the greatest height yet reached for In Tall Buildings.Saturday March 24 - Chicago, IL Album Release Show @ Schubas
Tuesday March 27 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Club Café
Wednesday 28 - Washington, DC @ DC9
Thursday March 29 - Brooklyn, NY @ Union Pool
Friday March 30 - Boston, MA @ Café 939
Saturday March 31 - Burlington, VT @ The Monkey House
Sunday April 1 - Northhampton, MA @ The Parlour Room
Monday April 2 - New Haven, CT @ Cafe Nine
Tuesday April 3 - Philadelphia, PA @ Milkboy
Thursday April 5 - Ann Arbor, MI @ The Blind Pig
Friday April 6 - Indianapolis, IN @ Pioneer
Saturday April 7 -St. Louis, MO @The Monocle
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