Includes Grammy-Nominated artist Peter Nevin's artwork and features Vocals from Richard Barone (The Bongos), Chris Barron (The Spin Doctors) and Lydia Ooghe. With Mike Visceglia on Bass (Suzanne Vega Band) and Billy Ficca on drums (Television).
"This record somehow feels like it was years in the making, full of experience, pain and joy. It sounds cliché to tell people to listen to their elders and learn from what they've done, but in a time where kids start bands and just ape someone's style, there is lots to be learned from Lach."- Herohill.com
"His new LP is his finest release to date: it’s heartfelt, intelligent, good-humored, and expertly constructed folk played with the irreverent attitude that has become the hallmark of the Antifolk aesthetic."- Movement Magazine
"I’m rather fascinated with this album: it’s so familiar and yet so hard to pin down. The Calm Before is a collection of Lach's latest post-punk stripped-down-raw-to-the-bone antifolk genius. He’s catchy, funny, and doesn’t only appeal to a niche audience like so many of the followers of antifolk seem to do."- smother.net
"I kinda like the whole punk folk thing and much as say, Weller is considered the Modfather, this guy is the leading influence in this genre and pretty damn good to boot."- rocksellout.com
"Anyone who wants to find out what antifolk was up to before a bunch of young wannabes (Beck, Regina Spektor, Jeffrey Lewis, Moldy Peaches, to name a few) melted it down and made it into something new, should study this record carefully. Everyone else: batten down the hatches, sit back, relax and enjoy the storm."- Exclaim Magazine
"Every now and then something arrives in the Incendiary shed that just blows me sideways. Lach’s The Calm Before has just done that. If there’s a place in the world where somebody with this kind of talent plays for next to nothing on a weekly basis, I want to be a regular. As it is, I’ll just have to settle for having this little gem of an album in my house. Jesus this is good. There’s your nutshell review right there. Stick it on a poster, you can quote me if you like. I want move to New York."- Incendiary Magazine
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lyrics
I Want To Be With You by Lach
In a car, yeah, with clotheslines, farms and road signs just whipping by
across Alabama creeks, across Montanic skies
Jimmy Rogers honeycombing across the dash yodel-lapping our ears along with Johnny Cash
You'll fall adreamin', your window wide open letting in the moonlight and pieces of Heaven
and the smiling, handshaking night
I want to be with you
Scared and shaking like little league choirs in front of families at holiday dinners
Lifting small children up on our shoulders being told secrets by sisters and brothers Escaping to the patio for Camels and Kents while gazing up at celestial merriments Blankets of stars singing, "How do you do?"
Well, I just want to be with you
I want to be with you
In a supermarket weighing out bananas and avocados
Checking out all the fabulous prizes on the box of Frostie-O's
Brown-bagging back to our apartment, cooking up chicken and tomatoes
Mozart and Ella as we bathe together holding each other under soapy water
Toweled and clean, yeah, fed and renewed
I just want to be with you
I want to be with you
Skin pressed to skin, you let me in, until we are one again
Over and over we are true lovers, over and over we are true friends In the soft hours, quiet and holy, when the one again become two as we drift into our sweet sleep, I just want to be with you I want to be with you
credits
from The Calm Before,
released December 17, 2013
Lach - Vocals, Guitars, Piano, Hammond B3, Glockenspiel
Billy Ficca - Drums (Except Tony Maimone on Positions of Power)
Mike Visceglia - Bass
MIke McGinnis - Reeds
Dan Donnelly - Mandolin
Munir Kahn - Tabla on Gone Gone Gone
Richard Barone, Chris Baron and Lydia Ooghe - Backing Vocals
Strummer meets Alabama Three. Spin it loud getting dressed for Saturday night, play loud passing a joint to the backseat on yr way to the gig, listen again w/ Sunday coffee to relive Saturday's glory. Lach
supported by 6 fans who also own “I Want To Be With You”
I have a kid who was a baby when the pandemic started and a toddler now. When he’s older and asks what the pandemic is like I’m gonna put this album on and pour myself a drink- this covers it all. Feels surreal to imagine ever having the privilege of going to see a Jeffrey Lewis show again but it’s top of my list when this crap is over. savanns