"New York's Paul Grimstad has the kind of strange bio that befits his clowny, 70s-inspired avant-pop. Born in the midwest and based in New York since the 90s, Grimstad is a literature professor at Yale, has written essays on Jimi Hendrix and Alan Turing for the New Yorker, and has composed music for a number of films, including last year's The Sweet East, to which he contributed Evening Mirror, a charming hypno-folk track featuring lead actor Talia Ryder."
"A maniacal odyssey of prog, jazz, boogie rock, psych and pop, Songs pays homage to the hi-fi chaos of 70s art-rock classics such as Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, a True Star, rarely staying in one lane for more than a couple of minutes across its breakneck 16-track, 40-minute runtime. Performed, produced and engineered entirely by Grimstad, Songs is catchy, hilarious and terrifying in equal measure: passages of sleek funk-pop rub up against snatches of psychotic haunted-house laughter."
Paul Grimstad is a midwestern-born, New York–based literature professor at Yale who has written essays on Jimi Hendrix and Alan Turing for the New Yorker and composed film music including last year's The Sweet East, contributing the hypno-folk track "Evening Mirror" featuring Talia Ryder. He has small acting parts in Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another and Josh Safdie's Marty Supreme. Songs is Grimstad's debut album, released alongside Music for Film. Songs is a 16-track, 40-minute, 70s-inspired avant-pop odyssey blending prog, jazz, boogie rock, psych and pop, performed, produced and engineered entirely by Grimstad. The record juxtaposes sleek funk-pop with haunted-house laughter and Philly soul influences, yielding a lush, ludicrous and unsettling listening experience.
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