Name: PAINT
Brand: Paint

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MEX2622

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Housed in Gatefold Style Wallet.  

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2018-11-02

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

The Orchard

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

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184923426229

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MEX2621

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Black

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Includes Oversized Newsprint Insert.

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184923426212

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Paint

Genre GB

Psychedelic

Label GB

Mexican Summer

Mexican Summer is an independent record label based out of Brooklyn, NY. They release the work of adventurous musicians without the limitations of genre or form. Mexican Summer operates in tandem with Anthology, a book publisher and archival record label. Anthology focuses on responsibly licensed material, compelling design, and definitive presentation.

Before making his mark as a songwriter and guitarist for Los Angeles’ Allah-Las, Pedrum Siadatian has etched out a place of his own with his solo work as PAINT. His first album under the alias was a cassette-only release in 2010. He released his self-titled album to much wider distribution via Mexican Summer in 2018. His third album, Spiritual Vegas arrived in the summer of 2020.

Allah-Las Pedrum Siadatian sings and plays guitar as Paint on his first solo album. Working with producer Frank Maston, drummer Matthew Correia (fellow Allah-La), NIck Murray (as seen with Oh Sees and White Fence). A super laidback slacker drawl fronts the sweet pop that is PAINT. Guitars shimmer, quiver and gently warp. Spooky synths permeate, while brass washes tunes with an acid glow. Soft sounds reverberate and give a summer feeling that’s gonna haunt you the rest of your life.

Paint started by four-tracking his own strange, slow-growing ideas just after Allah-Las third album Calico Review (2016) - fed or led by a certain acid-bitter poetry (Gregory Corso and John Lennon) and the murky music of Kevin Ayers and Syd Barrett. Siadatian found a producer and partner-in-grime in adept cinematic psychedelicist Frank Maston, who instinctively understood these songs would fall apart if scrubbed too roughly in the studio. Now PAINT’s self-titled debut LP has a happily paradoxical finished-but-not-finished-off feel, like Lou Reed and R. Stevie Moore and Julian Cope and Richard Hell, but just the songs that never came out.

Like Daily Gazette: big-city-on-the-skids mid-tempo hot-summer punk blues cool like those Richard Hell / Tom Verlaine Neon Boys tapes. Like Splattered: a subway-sound Velvet Underground valentine. Like Silver Streaks: budget-studio 1970s expression-as-obsession from the California observed and preserved by demimonde private-press psychedelicists Damon or F.J. McMahon. Like Wash: a last-dance cosmic waltz that could’ve been a snippet of an Angelo Badalamenti soundtrack.

Anyway, this is PAINT, the substance and the action – it drips, it runs, it changes colors. In between: not the desert but the dirt, not the night but the dark, not the sun but the heat and not the sea but the deep, and always the heartbeat blood-rush feel-it! momentum that makes all rock ‘n’ roll rock and roll. Think of it this way: PAINT’s first album isn’t always clean, but it’s very very clear. Sometimes the mess is the message.