{"id":23908,"date":"2016-10-29T17:15:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T21:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23908"},"modified":"2016-10-28T18:13:59","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T22:13:59","slug":"lou-barlow-releases-apocalypse-fetish-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23908","title":{"rendered":"Lou Barlow releases &#8216;Apocalypse Fetish&#8217; video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, the Folk Implosion) has just released his new EP,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/highvoltagepr.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8bbd1fce629615658f82df5cd&amp;id=ea4812f2ed&amp;e=b0da5a889f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"no referrer\">&#8216;Apocalypse Fetish&#8217;<\/a> via Joyful Noise Recordings. It&#8217;s follow-up to last year&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/2015\/09\/01\/lou-barlow-streams-new-lp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brace The Wave<\/a>&#8216; -his first solo release in six years &#8212; it features five new tracks recorded with Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab in Easthampton, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>To coincide with the EP release,\u00a0Barlow has shared a video for the EP&#8217;s title track, which explores our obsession with End Times. The video features fan-submitted clips of &#8220;super patriots&#8221; in pickup trucks along with\u00a0found\u00a0footage of rolling coal, tips for proper gun burial, a well-stocked gun safe, and other glimpses into the lives of &#8220;true life Apocalypse Fetishists.&#8221; You can watch the video\u00a0via\u00a0YouTube\u00a0below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6tZ9wkiLWXk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-CA&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on the new EP, Barlow says <em>&#8220;Apocalypse Fetish\u00a0is a 5 song extended play release from, me, Lou Barlow. The cover features a newborn child peering warily over the edge of her mother&#8217;s sling into 2016, the year that conspiracy theorists became experts and anger went [even more] mainstream. The song &#8220;Apocalypse Fetish&#8221; proposes that, perhaps, many of us have been disappointed that the end of the world has taken too long to come after we&#8217;ve spent most of our lives predicting it. And, perhaps, we&#8217;ve decided to take matters in our own hands and &#8220;bring it on&#8221; because, if it doesn&#8217;t come soon, then didn&#8217;t we all seem foolish talking about it all. the. time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>There are 4 other songs on the EP, none of which are political in nature but are similarly &#8220;fired up.&#8221;\u00a0The melodic inspirations for the record came from my day in the back stairways and basement of the enormous Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (Dinosaur Jr. were there opening for Primus in August 2015.)\u00a0I was alone and playing my ukulele in the cavernous spaces and tiled showers there. The unique reverberations brought the beginnings of these songs. The hall is reputed to be haunted and I&#8217;m not so sure it isn&#8217;t.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>I wasn&#8217;t able to fully draw the songs out until I recorded, once again, with Justin Pizzoferrato at Sonelab in Easthampton Massachusetts (May 2016.)\u00a0I recorded my last full length record (Brace The Wave) there in 2015. I&#8217;m happy to consider this EP a follow up to that album, though, this time, every song is played on ukulele (strung with heavy strings and tuned much lower than a standard uke.)\u00a0Actually, it sounds nothing like a ukulele. For all intents and purposes it is a 4-string acoustic guitar utilizing the strumming styles and lower toned soundscapes I&#8217;ve been pursuing since my first released ukulele recording: &#8220;Poledo&#8221; (on Dinosaur Jr&#8217;s 2nd LP &#8216;You&#8217;re Living All Over Me.&#8217;)\u00a0Yes, I&#8217;ve been doing this for a long time. I&#8217;d be proud to have\u00a0Apocalypse Fetish\u00a0be my final record. Check it out.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<h5><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-23911\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9d838089-7266-4b93-aaff-f59877455108.jpg?resize=300%2C300\" alt=\"9d838089-7266-4b93-aaff-f59877455108\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9d838089-7266-4b93-aaff-f59877455108.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9d838089-7266-4b93-aaff-f59877455108.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9d838089-7266-4b93-aaff-f59877455108.jpg?resize=144%2C144&amp;ssl=1 144w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9d838089-7266-4b93-aaff-f59877455108.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/h5>\n<p>&#8216;Apocalypse Fetish&#8217; track listing<\/p>\n<p>1. The Breeze<br \/>\n2. Apocalypse Fetish<br \/>\n3. Anniversary Song<br \/>\n4. Pour Reward<br \/>\n5. Try 2 B<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can stream\u00a0&#8216;Apocalypse Fetish&#8217;\u00a0in full via\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/highvoltagepr.us8.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=8bbd1fce629615658f82df5cd&amp;id=4b94cf1583&amp;e=b0da5a889f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\"><u>Spotify<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Lou Barlow (Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh, the Folk Implosion) has just released his new EP,\u00a0&#8216;Apocalypse Fetish&#8217; via Joyful Noise Recordings. It&#8217;s follow-up to last year&#8217;s\u00a0&#8216;Brace The <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=23908\" title=\"Lou Barlow releases &#8216;Apocalypse Fetish&#8217; video\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23909,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[23,28,29,30],"tags":[5679,438,3259],"class_list":["post-23908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-indie","category-music","category-music-video","category-new-release","tag-apocalypse-fetish","tag-ep","tag-lou-barlow"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cultureaddicts.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/9c23ba79-c5f7-479b-9613-1b6a918e2196.jpg?fit=550%2C409&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2B2TV-6dC","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18856,"url":"https:\/\/cultureaddicts.com\/?p=18856","url_meta":{"origin":23908,"position":0},"title":"Lou Barlow shares new video for &#8216;Nerve&#8217;","author":"cultureaddicts","date":"December 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Lou Barlow released\u00a0'Brace the Wave,' his first solo album in six years, in September via Joyful Noise. 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