专辑简介

2009 release, David Wingo's much anticipated sophomore effort under the name Ola Podrida. Chockfull of unsentimental love songs, the album pulses with the burgeoning sexuality borne of feral adolescent summers spent in the sprawling suburbs of the South. Rather than creating overwrought studio jams, Wingo's years of recording soundtracks seem to have taught him how to use the perfect amount of restraint, while still delivering rich guitar textures that compliment his unforgettable vocal melodies and magnify the impact of his abstract narratives. Ola Podrida has played throughout the US, including shows with Fleet Foxes, Explosions in the Sky, She & Him, Beach House and many others.

For better or worse, Ola Podrida’s reputation will undoubtedly be peppered with name drops intended to pigeonhole the Brooklyn quintet alongside the likes of Bon Iver or Band of Horses. It partly makes sense, as their second LP Belly of the Lion dabbles in deceptively predictable indie folk-isms: softly muttered, confessional poetry set to mercurial acoustics couched in mood-setting chamber sonics. But just as frontman David Wingo’s main trade as a film composer lends only peripheral context to his work as Ola Podrida, such codification hardly conveys the simple heartache Winger strums across every one of this album’s nine tracks with reassuring ease. There are plenty of reasons to ignore this one, but far more to actually listen.