The Worried Coat, by Adam Ostrar

The Worried Coat

by Adam Ostrar

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1.	Kansas City 04:46	buy track
2.	Alex The Cretin 03:58	buy track
3.	Bloody Waves 03:44	buy track
4.	Take It Back 02:47	buy track
5.	A Burden My Shoe 03:11	buy track
6.	Talking Out Loud 03:21	buy track
7.	Pilot Light 03:26	buy track
8.	Walk The Savages Home 03:13	buy track
9.	Morning Said 02:08	buy track
10.	Stormed The Beach 01:56	buy track
11.	Moleskin Doves 03:42	buy track
12.	The Work 04:52	buy track

about

Adam Ostrar is a parent, maybe just like you, that worries about the world his kid is inheriting. He lives in an over-priced city (Austin, TX), drinks too much coffee (a bottomless cup), and suffers from insomnia (don’t try to tell him this might be related to the former). He’s anxious about the damaged and ravaged U.S.A. and so are the narrators on his new album, The Worried Coat (Super Secret Records).

Before the 2016 election, an album like this might be called a "dystopia." On Ostrar’s new album, he weaves together disparate voices. There’s no good guys or bad guys, no red or blue. “It’s twelve narratives on otherness, self-identity, and our personal relationships with anxiety. How we often betray our best intentions through willful ignorance.”

Each of these characters wears a different hat: In “Alex the Cretin” you hear the evangelical snake-oil salesman high on Rundgren; “Bloody Waves” is the bossanova buoy of a refugee’s displacement; in “Kansas City,” we hear Kevin Ayers as Joe the Plumber looking backwards on his false nostalgia; “Stormed the Beach” is the sound of Cluster employed by Greenpeace; “Walk the Savages Home” is the gurgle of nativism and corruption; And in “Morning Said,” Ostrar drops his tuning down to D to play pre-Page riffs while speaking to our forgotten good intentions.

Recorded in part in Mexico City courtesy of The Moles' unused studio time, and finished at a ranch in Arizona, Ostrar wrapped and warped his Gretsch Country Gentleman guitar around these groovy nuggets of capitalistic despair, cretinism, gaslighting, nationalism, nativism, false heroism, and that good-time tug-of-war (psssst, this game is rigged) called Inherited Wealth vs. Inherited Debt. But he wasn’t alone in making this album. He brought along Michael Krassner (Boxhead Ensemble, Lofty Pillars), Wil Hendricks (Califone, Simon Joyner), and Stephen Patterson (Hamilton Leithauser, White Rabbits).

This is Ostrar’s second solo album, the follow-up to 2017’s Brawls In the Briar. Before that, he led the early 2000 shag-carpet art-punk of Manishevitz, an early Jagjaguwar band that toured with The Mountain Goats and Edith Frost before the Internet kept track of these things. When he isn’t stressing out, you can find him teaching guitar and Ubering to gigs in Austin, Texas. Some days he has a beard, some days he doesn’t. The Worried Coat is Ostrar at his best even though 2018 wasn’t the best year.

credits

released April 5, 2019

Recorded by Michael Krassner at Drooom Studios in Oracle, AZ

Additional recording on “Talking Out Loud” “Morning Said” “Bloody Waves” at Panoram Studios in Mexico City with Mario Frias and Juan Sebastian Rodriguez

Mixed by Michael Krassner at Five Thirteen; mastered by Shelly Steffens at Chicago Mastering Service

Adam Ostrar - Vocals, Guitars, Synths
Wil Hendricks - Bass, Guitars, Organs, Backing Vocals
Michael Krassner - Guitars, Organs
Stephen Patterson - Drums, Percussion, Organs, Synths, Backing Vocals
with Wally Boudway - Slide Guitar, Percussion, Backing Vocals

Cover Photo “Smokey” by Adam Ostrar

Special Thanks to Michael Krassner, Richard Lynn, Jasmine Busch and Tony Presley, Star Rosencrans, Via Nuon, Ismael Archbold and Jerry David DeCicca

All songs by Adam Ostrar ©℗ 2019 Ostrar Melodies (ASCAP), administered by New Jerusalem Music/ASCAP

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