Padang Food Tigers - God's Plenty (Shhpuma)

WHAT YOUR EARS SAY & THE COVER LOOKS LIKE

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WHAT WE SAY

I can't believe I almost missed this! Padang Food Tigers drop a most welcome & excellent 2nd 2021 LP of folk abstractions that weave through surreal ambient mists shrouding fertile electroacoustic lands moistened by westerly drones & warmed by all manner of strings.

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WHAT THE RELEASE NOTES SAY

Padang Food Tigers – comprised of London duo Stephen Lewis and Spencer Grady – release their fifth album, God’s Plenty, an enchanting, often surreal, ambient-folk tapestry full of dreamlike reveries and poignantly real memories. 

Weaving minimal acoustic abstractions of dobro and banjo atop organ-led drones and keening lap-steel flickers, the pair’s emotive music sees them engage in a succession of playful improvisational back-and-forths, while imbuing their more traditionally-minded tendencies with a spectral, hypnagogic gauze and spontaneous sense of wonder. 

Still marked by the signature traces of Ry Cooder, Virginia Astley, Scott Tuma and Bruce Langhorne’s The Hired Hand that characterised earlier works, God’s Plenty finds Padang Food Tigers relocating to an increasingly phantasmagorical realm, a locus where family ghosts co-habit with bizarre radio transmissions and the reverb-drenched blues of an electric guitar mournfully makes its plea beside a doleful gutbucket refrain.

CreditsAll music recorded between 2018 - 2020 
Recorded, mixed and produced by Stephen Lewis & Spencer Grady Executive production by Travassos for Trem Azul 
Design by Travassos 
Cover painting 'Tygers at Play' by George Stubbs 

Released via Shhpuma  
shhpuma.com​

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