Pete Yorn

by Pete Yorn

Overview

Pete Yorn has a knack for attracting intriguing collaborators, and for his eponymous fifth solo album he's produced by perhaps his most interesting partner yet: Black Francis, the mastermind of the Pixies. The two don't seem to have much in common but that's only if you ignore everything Black Francis did after the Pixies. There, he pioneered a fusion of Iggy Pop and roots music that isn't in an entirely different ballpark from Yorn's, even if it may be at the other end of the stadium. Certainly, the guitar-heavy Pete Yorn recalls The Cult of Ray as much as it does Nightcrawler, with Yorn easing into a setting that could have been constructed by the Catholics, but he's not writing like Black, he's retaining his unaffected, straight-ahead songwriting voice. It's a curious combination that doesn't always work -- he's hampered whenever he slides toward the cutesy, as he does on "Rock Crowd" and "Velcro Shoes" -- but this album's often a bracing, propulsive listen, the hardest rock Yorn has ever recorded. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine

Product Details

Release Date:	12/15/2023
Label:	Vagrant
UPC:	4050538961058
Rank:	43351

Tracks

1. Precious Stone
2. Rock Crowd
3. Velcro Shoes
4. Paradise Cove l
5. Badman
6. The Chase
7. Sans Fear
8. Always
9. Stronger Than
10. Future Life
11. Wheels

Album Credits

Performance Credits

Pete Yorn   Primary Artist
Charles Normal   Bass,Guitar

Technical Credits

Black Francis   Producer
Gram Parsons   Composer
Pete Yorn   Composer
Jason Carter   Mixing,Engineer
Beth Kaltman   Photography
Chris Hillman   Composer
Robert Carranza   Mixing,Additional Production
Bob Ludwig   Mastering
Ben Goetting   Design