Nick Waterhouse - The Fooler

Sixth album from singer-songwriter Nick Waterhouse

Limited time album download included

The title of the sixth album from Californian singer-songwriter Nick Waterhouse is more than just the name of one of its tracks. The Fooler is both a clue and a red herring. The Fooler is the observed and the observer, narrator and subject, truth and lie. The Fooler is the shadow and reflection of a city the artist knows sufficiently well to wander with his eyes closed, and a place which very possibly never even existed.

The Fooler is not so much an unreliable narrator as a constantly shifting perspective. The Fooler is the new album by Nick Waterhouse, and it's a lot. Recorded by Mark Neill (Black Keys; Los Straightjackets; Dave Cobb) in Valdosta, Georgia, it's a song-cycle of sorts, the arc of the album telling a tale of a city and its denizens. The result is a record that offers up new riches and fresh perspectives with every spin. From the hidden corners of "Hide & Seek" and the roadhouse soul of "Play To Win" to the primitive, attitudinal, chugging two-chord thrill of "Late In The Garden," it builds inexorably to the drama of the title track and pulsing roll-and-rock of the final pay off, "Unreal, Immaterial."

Play it once and it sounds immediately like a collection of great songs. Play it again — and you will — and it feels like a novel or film slowly unveiling its secrets, kaleidoscopic in its narrative complexity. "Especially during this record, I started just becoming what Allen Ginsberg called a pure breath," says the artist. "I was becoming pure breath with my ideas."

Looking For A Place

Hide And Seek

(No) Commitment

Play To Win

Was It You

Late In The Garden

The Problem With A Street

Plan For Leaving

Are You Hurting

It Was The Style

The Fooler

Unreal, Immaterial

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