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25 Years Of Local H
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| | Whatever Happened To PJ Soles? Our first full length with Andy Gerber and our first recorded in Chicago. Recording started at Million Yen in February 2003, three months before the release of The No Fun EP. Tracking wouldn't be finished until November. The longest we've ever taken. The time was well spent. PJ Soles may be our richest, most textured album yet. Following the Houses Of The Holy playbook, and more than aware that we were hopelessly out of sync with radio, we felt free to follow our every whim and open up our sonic palette like never before - striving to make every song sound different from the last. The record is littered with tiny details and left turns. The harmonica and quintupled drum rolls on Money On The Dresser, the clipped intro to Heavy Metal Bakesale, the many vocal treatments, and the production is resourceful and inventive. From the hip-hop needle skips in the beat of the album opener, Where Are They Now?, to the Beach Boys allusion in the bass tone on California Songs - nothing was out of bounds. On top of that is a songwriting spectrum that hits on everything from stoned epics (Buffalo Trace, That's What They All Say) to scorched-earth rockers (Everyone Alive, How's The Weather Down There) to mournful pop (PJ Soles, Halcyon Days). Not to mention, Scott was finally coming into his own as a vocalist. He no longer sounded like a twelve year old. But even with all that to recommend, it remains our most misunderstood and underrated record. Maybe people were expecting the the slick wallop of Here Comes The Zoo, but we had little interest in making a record like that. Our major label days were over. And besides - whatever the record lacks in punch is made up for in variety. It's been suggested many times that we should remix it, that it's too lo-fi. But a George Lucas-like bit of revisionism would only betray the album's themes of resilience and graceful aging. It's our headphone symphony and Scott's favorite Local H record. Just let it be. |
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