ATX PostA.A. Bondy Will Make You Believers [Show Preview]
A.A. Bondy, a.k.a. Auguste Arthur (his given name) a.k.a. Scott (his preferred name) Bondy, has had a busy past four years. After his role as lead singer of Verbena, a popular 1990s Alabama rock band, Bondy laid low until releasing his own more folk oriented album (including harmonica!) in 2007 to critical acclaim and hasn’t looked back since.
His latest release, Believers, takes a more complicated tack from the previous two full-length releases. In an interview with Aquarium Drunkard, Bondy discusses how the name of the album came to be and how it reflects the lyrics of songs on it:
“I liked it because it sounded like a series of stories. It also sounded like a question at the same time. [...] It’s some kind of stream of consciousness thing and trying to be in control of that in some kind of way… I was just trying to impart this whole thing where you can feel a stack of given emotions at any time. Where before, the songs would be all very simplistic and pointed in one, almost naive, direction. Like, ‘this is what sadness is like,’ or ‘this is what patriotism is’ or some shit like that. But I realized after playing all those songs, that rarely does one emotion overtake everything.”
As the lyrics moved in a new direction, so did some of the instrumentation for the album. Gone are the simple acoustic guitar chords backing Bondy’s gruff { ...to continue reading this article: Article source: }
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