Pickpocket's Locket

Vinyl LP pressing. 2015 album from the Canadian alt-rock quartet. Pickpocket's Locket's genesis was a little different than usual. Main main Carey Mercer explains: "My dad left me his acoustic guitar in his will; it was all he had to give, because he wasn't a rich man. I wrote 10 songs on it, and I think that was the real gift he gave me: a love of music, not just the way you all love it (music lovers), but also a love of creating it, sowing myself, in some small way, into the story of music. I was holding the guitar a lot, kind of savoring it: a Martin D-18. I had been making records for a few years with a computer, piling tracks on tracks, writing words over guitar licks already recorded in a studio. I came to think of an acoustic guitar as somehow akin to a computer, only in the sense that they are both tools of transmission, both effective in their own way. An acoustic guitar is still, in 2015, a very effective way of transmitting one's songs. I made a deal with myself: write ten songs, write all the words before anyone gets to hear any of the songs, memorize the songs so that I become the hard-drive that the acoustic guitar accesses. I mostly, if not totally, kept to this deal, which is rare: I'm generally pretty easy on myself." The record features guest appearances by Spencer Krug, and violinist Jesse Zubot.

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