{"product_id":"bill-orcutt-another-perfect-day","title":"Bill Orcutt - Another Perfect Day","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnother Perfect Day \u003c\/em\u003eis Bill Orcutt's first solo electric guitar record since 2017’s eponymous Bill Orcutt. While that eight-year gap might not seem like a ton of time on the cosmic scale, it nonetheless represents a busy half-decade plus for Orcutt projects: \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea raft of improv collaborations, an acclaimed run of chopped and looped albums on Fake Estates, and the collision of Orcutt's computer and guitar music on Music For Four Guitars and How to Rescue Things. The undeniable alchemy of those latter mashups inspired not only a wider appreciation of Orcutt-as-composer, but also the resurrection of Orcutt-as-bandleader, as the Bill Orcutt Quartet hit the road in support of Four Guitars, Orcutt's first work with a proper score (courtesy of Shane Parrish).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis may be Orcutt's most overtly punk-rockist record since Gerty Loves Pussy, his first solo electric LP from a decade ago. It's an affirmation that Orcutt is above all a lead player—angular runs scaling the heavens, ricocheting back to ground zero before climbing again. Orcutt builds tension with short phrases, repeated with slight variability until it seems like they’ll never stop, finally slamming into a fresh line like the dawning valley at the crest of the mountain pass.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnother Perfect Day\u003c\/em\u003e is, ultimately, something of a solo guitar Nouveau Roman, an exhilarating run through melodic reiteration, impossible crescendos (check out those ecstatic crowd hoots on \"For the Drainers\") breaking into—a moment rarely found on an Orcutt record—soft, whisper-quiet tracer notes at the end of \"A Natural Death.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnother Perfect Day \u003c\/em\u003ereturns Orcutt to the immediacy of his earliest records while maintaining the melodic complexity, phrasing, and flow of a player, who's been going, what—four-plus decades now? And when he taps his roots, it's a reminder of exactly what was so exciting about Orcutt's playing in the first place.\"—TOM CARTER\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PALILALIA","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":53021397320022,"sku":"MRM-00365","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/6088\/9430\/files\/997c08d5432e23def7f7c297b3aadee4.png?v=1775187554","url":"https:\/\/monorailmusic.com\/products\/bill-orcutt-another-perfect-day","provider":"Monorail Music","version":"1.0","type":"link"}