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With new, old blood and a renewed passion for playing together, the Moondoggies
channeled the band's beginnings: dingy dive bars and DIY house shows, those damp
teenage back porch jams, the hours on end spent improvising in their practice space. In
the process of recording Adiós, songs laid to rest were reborn ("Don't Ask Why" was
recorded for a never released album). Others were tirelessly edited until they were just
right ("A Lot to Give" has been written and rewritten countless times over the course of
years). Others exploded from the electric energy of the studio. All told, the band
recorded 21 songs with producer Ryan Hadlock at Bear Creek Studios.
The 12 songs the band settled on highlight their dichotomies: dirty hooks and sweet
harmonies, electric edge and plaintive pleas, chaotic collapse and restorative rhythm,
nostalgia and newness. Though there is plenty that evokes the band that came before.
Those of you looking for something familiar will be wowed by the Crazy Horse deja vu of
"Don't Ask Why," and several of the new songs have already become live standards at
Moondoggies shows. But as a listener, the most exciting parts of the album are the
band's explorations of this undefined territory they sought to inhabit. The surf strut that
begins "Midnight Owl" is unlike anything heard before on a Moondoggies record, the
upbeat tempo masking a brutal retelling of love at any cost.
As a creative process and a finished product, Adiós I'm a Ghost is the Moondoggies at
their best yet; exemplary of their desire to move beyond a self-made mold and embrace
a boundary-less existence.
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