{"title":"Paint","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore making his mark as a songwriter and guitarist for Los Angeles’ Allah-Las, Pedrum Siadatian has etched out a place of his own with his solo work as PAINT. His first album under the alias was a cassette-only release in 2010. He released his self-titled album to much wider distribution via Mexican Summer in 2018. His third album, Spiritual Vegas arrived in the summer of 2020.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"paint","title":"PAINT","description":"\u003cp\u003eAllah-Las Pedrum Siadatian sings and plays guitar as Paint on his first solo album. Working with producer Frank Maston, drummer Matthew Correia (fellow Allah-La), NIck Murray (as seen with Oh Sees and White Fence). A super laidback slacker drawl fronts the sweet pop that is PAINT. Guitars shimmer, quiver and gently warp. Spooky synths permeate, while brass washes tunes with an acid glow. Soft sounds reverberate and give a summer feeling that’s gonna haunt you the rest of your life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaint started by four-tracking his own strange, slow-growing ideas just after Allah-Las third album \u003ci\u003eCalico Review\u003c\/i\u003e (2016) - fed or led by a certain acid-bitter poetry (Gregory Corso and John Lennon) and the murky music of Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett. Siadatian found a producer and partner-in-grime in adept cinematic psychedelicist Frank Maston, who instinctively understood these songs would fall apart if scrubbed too roughly in the studio. Now PAINT’s self-titled debut LP has a happily paradoxical finished-but-not-finished-off feel, like Lou Reed and R. Stevie Moore and Julian Cope and Richard Hell, but just the songs that never came out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLike \u003ci\u003eDaily Gazette\u003c\/i\u003e: big-city-on-the-skids mid-tempo hot-summer punk blues cool like those Richard Hell \/ Tom Verlaine Neon Boys tapes. Like \u003ci\u003eSplattered\u003c\/i\u003e: a subway-sound Velvet Underground valentine. Like \u003ci\u003eSilver Streaks\u003c\/i\u003e: budget-studio 1970s expression-as-obsession from the California observed and preserved by demimonde private-press psychedelicists Damon or F.J. McMahon. Like \u003ci\u003eWash\u003c\/i\u003e: a last-dance cosmic waltz that could’ve been a snippet of an Angelo Badalamenti soundtrack. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnyway, this is PAINT, the substance and the action – it drips, it runs, it changes colors. In between: not the desert but the dirt, not the night but the dark, not the sun but the heat and not the sea but the deep, and always the heartbeat blood-rush feel-it! momentum that makes all rock ‘n’ roll rock and roll. Think of it this way: PAINT’s first album isn’t always clean, but it’s very very clear. 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His miniature menagerie of light-psych and proto-punk gems had outgrown their cassette cage and were now ready to be heard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaint’s eponymous debut (Mexican Summer, 2018) appeared out of the ether, fully formed. It was praised for its originality and drew favorable comparisons to the likes of Kevin Ayers, Lou Reed and Julian Cope. The mess was the message and the decidedly mid-fi production found Siadatian both honoring and eschewing tradition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis year sees Paint returning with the release of the ambitious \u003ci\u003eSpiritual Vegas\u003c\/i\u003e. While Ray Davies-smirks and Kevin Ayers-wit abound, Siadatian’s singular touch is unmistakable. Joined once again by producer \/ engineer Frank Maston at the helm, Spiritual Vegas features a rogue’s gallery of players with performances by Jackson Macintosh (TOPS, Sheer Agony) on bass and guitar, Nick Murray (White Fence, Oh Sees) on drums, and brothers-in- Las Spencer Dunham and Matt Correia on bass and percussion respectively.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe production is a clear departure from Paint’s debut- with an increased clarity and tonal variety, drawing inspiration from 80’s\/90’s art-rock like The Meat Puppets and The Magnetic Fields.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mexican Summer","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50473276080459,"sku":"1093808","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"CD","offer_id":50473276670283,"sku":"1093807","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/9bbaaaa4-efaf-4f28-99e0-9cb93301e04e_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1727428010"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/collections\/test_e979eef2_thumbnail_4096_94bcc357-3cc8-4047-b461-1a6f03f26b2d.jpg?v=1727411680","url":"https:\/\/shop.roughtrade.com\/collections\/paint.oembed","provider":"Rough Trade","version":"1.0","type":"link"}