The title of the sixth album from Californian singer-songwriter Nick Waterhouse is more than just the name of one of its tracks. The Fooler is both a clue and a red herring. The Fooler is the observed and the observer, narrator and subject, truth and lie. The Fooler is the shadow and reflection of a city the artist knows sufficiently well to wander with his eyes closed, and a place which very possibly never even existed. The Fooler is not so much an unreliable narrator as a constantly shifting perspective.
The Fooler is the new album by Nick Waterhouse, and it's a lot. Recorded by Mark Neill (Black Keys; Los Straightjackets; Dave Cobb) in Valdosta, Georgia, it's a song-cycle of sorts, the arc of the album telling a tale of a city and its denizens.
The result is a record that offers up new riches and fresh perspectives with every spin. From the hidden corners of ‘Hide & Seek' and the roadhouse soul of ‘Play To Win' to the primitive, attitudinal, chugging two-chord thrill of ‘Late In The Garden', it builds inexorably to the drama of the title track and pulsing roll-and-rock of the final pay off, ‘Unreal, Immaterial'. Play it once and it sounds immediately like a collection of great songs. Play it again - and you will - and it feels like a novel or film slowly unveiling its secrets, kaleidoscopic in its narrative complexity. "Especially during this record, I started just becoming what Allen Ginsberg called a pure breath," says the artist. "I was becoming pure breath with my ideas."
A1. Looking For A Place A2. Hide And Seek A3. (No) Commitment A4. Play To Win A5. Was It You A6. Late In The Garden B7. The Problem With A Street B8. Plan For Leaving B9. Are You Hurting B10. It Was The Style B11. The Fooler B12. Unreal, Immaterial
- Format: Vinyl
- Format Detail: LP Tip-On Jacket [w/ download card]
- Handling Time Note: ** Please allow an additional 72 business hours for this item's shipment. **
- Released: 4/7/23
- Genre: R&B
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