"tug on her corset until her ribs collapse"
Los Angeles based Kal Madsen creates songs that sound like dime store pulp fiction novels from another time even though I suspect all his stories are based on factual events. His lo-fi aesthetic, talky singing, wanderlusty busker / beat poet aesthetic feels so incredibly 60's and therein lies the allure. This aesthetic feels like a writer of those aforementioned dime store novels deciding to be a singer and musician.
His track "Corset" from his newly released 7 track Album "The Auto Bons" contain 4 songs from his 2018 release "Kal Madsen & The Auto Bons Home Recordings" as well as "Life Railed" and two live tracks. "Corset" is lush in it's lo-fi-ness and from the onset, with it's running organ sound, staggered beat, walking bass and dark lyrics, you cannot help but think of a crashing together of Lou Reed and, to some degree, Kevin Morby or maybe, more specifically, The Babies, Morby's wonderful band / project with Cassie Ramone. Madsen, though, feels more caustic here turning out lines like
"tug on her corset until her ribs collapse / choke all her desires until her relapse / chase away her demons like they aren't built in / you could try these things, but you cant win"
And before you think it is all casting aspersions, all pernicious pestilence, this relationship catharsis has an emotional framework that is built out of fractured sticks. Madsen shares:
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