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Bobby Lee

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Pop Mutations presents...
Bobby Lee
Friday 26th November
Mono

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Bobby Lee trades in a wide screen brand of cosmic country-folk, full of space and
pawn shop guitars. There are touches of JJ Cale’s analogue Americana, the
swampy groove of Tony Joe White and Richard Thompson’s sinewy, modal guitar
work. Amps hum in the warm afternoon sun, kids and dogs snooze on the grass
and broken drum machines keep time with the universe…
Bobby released his debut album, Shakedown in Slabtown, in August 2020, on his own Natural Histories imprint, which Mojo Magazine described as “word of mouth sensation amongst discerning heads.” It was swiftly followed by Origin
Myths in March 2021, released on the legendary Tompkins Square Records,
becoming album of the week on Huey Morgan’s 6Music radio show and gaining
support from BBC Late Junction, No Depression, The Guardian, NTS and WFMU, amongst others. His latest single, “Walking With Trees”, a collaboration with Mia Doi Todd, was released in September 2021 via Re:Warm.
Press for Origin Myths (Tompkins Square Records, 2021)
“... a mystical big sky desert dream....” The Wire Magazine
**** Mojo Magazine
“Open sky instrumental wonders” 8/10 Uncut Magazine
“ Lovers of swampy gnarly folk guitars will love Origin Myths” The Guardian
“standing at that interstellar crossroads between Americana, American primitive,
psychedelic and shoegaze” Petal Motel
“Soundscape meets landscapes ... like clouds wafting across an endless sky and play like a series of unintentional field recordings made on a dusty summer day.”
Bandcamp Daily
“Deep-fried galactic grandeur” Folk Radio UK
“Joining SUSS, Bobby Walker Jr, and North Americans, Lee helps to round out a new wave of top line ambient country.” Raven Sings The Blues
“dime store desert twang” New Commute
“If Harvey Mandel’s Christo Redentor and Jerry Garcia’s first solo LP get just as much use on your turntable as your Popol Vuh and North Americans records, then you unquestionably need Origin Myths in your life.” Record Crates United
BBC6 Music’s Huey Morgan’s Album of the Week.
Support from BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction, No Depression, Gideon Coe, WFMU, Huw Stephens, Aquarium Drunkard, Night Folk, NTS.
Press for Shakedown in Slabtown (Natural Histories Records, 2020.)
“A word of mouth sensation amongst discerning heads” Mojo Magazine editor John Mulvey
“Overdriven drum machine low slung choogle” Mojo Magazine
“The further Bobby and his band unmoor themselves from songs and head towards
long-form abstraction, the more engrossing it becomes.” 7/10 Uncut Magazine
**** Shindig Magazine
“Perfectly primitive drum machines, shimmering guitars, laid-back-but-still-intense
interplay, fried desert boogie … the good shit.” Doom & Gloom From The Tomb
“Psychedelic hues magnified by the immensity of the great outdoors, a timeless place
where lonesome cowboy Bobby Lee will start his life-changing wanderings.” Moof
Magazine
“Worn denim instrumental psych country …. Lee’s making his mark here, spinning
classics into his own essence while crafting an album of personal mediations that
spurn the impulse to sit still.” Raven Sings The Blues
“Take these instrumentals and write your own story on them, they will give you space
and inspiration to do so.” Americana UK

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