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Letter To Theo

from The Calm Before by Lach

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    "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

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    "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

Letter To Theo by Lach

And so, Theo, what news I have today
The colors are frightening in a most wonderful way
The countryside is on fire as the sun slides away
And at night I can feel the stars
They're calling out my name

How do we love? Is that something we control?
Are we governed by our hearts, or by our minds, or by our souls?
What nerve have I to believe that I know
When I'm just another actor
In God's traveling show

My dear Theo
O my dear Theo

In closing, Theo, you know you have my love
And I wish there was some way I could say what it
Was I'm thinking of
Please visit me soon, I would love to paint your face
I would pose you beneath the moon
Over by the Postman's place

My dear Theo
O my dear Theo

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

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Lach Edinburgh, UK

Lach, founder of the Antifolk movement and star of BBC Radio 4's The Lach Chronicles.

‘Beat-punk-unplugged joy!’-The Guardian UK

‘Splendid! Best of it's kind!’- Mojo

‘Incredibly bright, influential, funny, poetic.’-Suzanne Vega

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