Ricky Albeck - Expensive Music. LP [Orange Vinyl]
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Ricky Albeck - Expensive Music. LP [Orange Vinyl]
Adelaide's Ricky Albeck has been refining his high energy brand of alt-country tinged pub rock since the release of his debut album 'Nocturnal' back in 2024.
Showing no signs of slowing down at all his tongue-in-cheek follow up 'Expensive Music' feels bolder, tighter and edgier. Rounding out at 9 songs its a quick run through, but this thing has literally zero skips, oscillating between beer spilling rockers and tender moments of vulnerability.
Following from the same rulebook that's made MJ Lenderman and Wilco household names, Albeck puts his songwriting above all else here but still never forgetting to have fun with it.
The unapologetic opener 'Drinking Beer & Playing Pool All Night' really sets the tone straight from the off, with Albeck vividly recounting a wild night at his local. While the softly spoken one-two punch of 'Spend The Night With You' & 'Everything' really makes a case for just how much his songwriting scope has grown over the last few years and title track ‘Expensive Music’ delightfully pokes fun at the modern consumeristic world brilliantly.
Bill Callahan, Jason Molina & David Berman all in their own ways feel subtly etched into the DNA of Albecks music, but its how he shapes and moulds these influences into something greater, a distinct tone that doesn't sound like it could come from anywhere other than Adelaide right now.
For fans of Big Thief, MJ Lenderman & Bill Callahan
Tracklist:
1 Playing Pool and Drinking All Night
2 Rerun City
3 Spend the Night
4 Everything
5 Famous Friends
6 Expensive Music
7 Breakfast Plans
8 Mum, Stevie and Me
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