Aaron Lee Tasjan - Karma For Cheap (CD)

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Most people know Aaron Lee Tasjan as one of the wittiest, most offbeat, brilliant, weed-smokin'€™ and LSD micro-dosin'€™ Americana troubadours writing and singing songs today. Steel yourselves, folk fans, because he's about to follow his restless muse straight out from under the weight of everyone'€™s expectations into the kind of glammy, jingle-jangle, power-pop and psych-tinged sounds he hasn't dabbled in since his younger days playing lead guitar for a late-period incarnation of The New York Dolls.

Karma For Cheap is Tasjan's third album and second for New West Records. The record was co-produced by Aaron and his friends Jeff Trott (Stevie Nicks, Liz Phair, Meiko, Joshua Radin) and Gregory Lattimer (Albert Hammond Jr.) and features Aaron Lee'€™s road band - guitarist Brian Wright, bassist Tommy Scifres and drummer Seth Earnest - with whom he's been touring heavily for the last two years.

While the stylistic shift from Tasjan's palpably stoned '€˜70s-country-channeling 2015 debut, In the Blazes, to his more sophisticated, introspective and lushly produced 2016 follow-up, Silver Tears, was relatively incremental, Karma'€™s rocked-up Britpop-influenced Beatles-Bowie-Badfinger vibes underscore a significant departure. The album boldly reimagines these vintage sounds, pushing the boundaries of what can be considered Americana.

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