Hollywood Park by Airborne Toxic Event (CD, 2020, Rounder) *NEW* *FREE Shipping*

Description: Hollywood Park by Airborne Toxic Event [CD] Track Listing: 1 Hollywood Park 2 Brother, How Was The War? 3 Carry Me 4 Come On Out 5 I Don't Want To Be Here Anymore 6 All The Children 7 Everything I Love Is Broken 8 All These Engagements 9 The Place We Meet A Thousand Feet Beneath the Racetrack 10 The Common Touch 11 The Place We Meet A Thousand Feet Beneath the Racetrack 12 True 2020 release. In conjunction with frontman Mikel Jollett's memoir, The Airborne Toxic Event has completed an album by the same name, HOLLYWOOD PARK is a 12-song concept record drawing from themes in the book. Incorporates real audio from his family, gospel singers and orchestral flourishes from violins to timpani to horns. Illustrates dashed dreams & difficult times of childhood, as well as the confusion of an adult life spent nursing the wounds. An ultimate redemption story on finding self-acceptance and love of family. --- The musical soundtrack to Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett's autobiography of the same name, Hollywood Park dials back the trashy glam rock of its predecessor in favor of big earnest indie rock with the occasional flourish of gothic folk and Americana-laced post-punk. The titular cut, which is named after the horse track where Jollett and his brother Tony would often go to spend time with their father, rolls in on a chassis of blazing, late-'70s Springsteen bombast. The somber "Brother, How Was the War?" delivers a contrasting view of Jollett's complex youth, which was mired in the discord of having been raised in Synanon, an experimental community in Santa Monica that eventually morphed into a violent cult. Impressionistic renderings of the book's often harrowing ruminations on family, addiction, poverty, and illness abound, with highlights arriving via the pulsing "Come on Out" and the early Arcade Fire-invoking "Everything I Love Is Broken." The melodies are familiar, but Jollett's an ace storyteller with a keen sense of when to turn on the thrusters and when to hit the brakes. His expressive voice can go from hushed and brooding to outright explosive, and he applies the cracks in all the right places, which helps to elevate otherwise rote indie anthems like "All These Engagements" into fiery, fist-raising calls to action. Jollett has mellowed with age -- he's now a father himself -- as has ATE's nervy, classical-tinged post-punk approach to parsing life's myriad woes, but Hollywood Park's particular brand of nostalgia is tempered with fire, as it was forged in a crucible of unimaginable discontent. ~ James Christopher Monger, AllMusic Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE

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Location: Tarzana, California

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