Palilalia Records

"No one is playing acoustic guitar like Bill Orcutt right now. No one."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:12:00 -0800

“No one is playing acoustic guitar like Bill Orcutt right now. No one.”

- Lars Gotrich writing about How The Thing Sings at NPR

At the All Ears festival in Oslo. Photo by Jim Hensley

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:54:00 -0800

At the All Ears festival in Oslo. Photo by Jim Hensley

"Perhaps the meaning of Orcutt’s highly personal blues is not to be found either in the sounds of his..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:41:04 -0800

“Perhaps the meaning of Orcutt’s highly personal blues is not to be found either in the sounds of his guitar (fingered or struck) or in his voice (sung or grunted), but in the exertion and motions of a live body recorded in real time and space: the blues as dance.”

- Ian Latta reviewing How The Thing Sings on Tiny Mix Tapes

Title track from How the Thing Sings

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:57:46 -0800

Title track from How the Thing Sings

Antwerp gig poster by Dennis Tyfus

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 19:25:00 -0800

Antwerp gig poster by Dennis Tyfus

"It’s tempting to focus solely on the adrenaline rush of Orcutt’s playing, and let it all..."

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 18:04:52 -0800

“It’s tempting to focus solely on the adrenaline rush of Orcutt’s playing, and let it all fly by like a stoner zoning out to Jackson Pollock’s splattery paintings or Stan Brakhage’s color-filled abstract films. That’s a fine way to experience Orcutt’s music, but there also seems to be a lot of intense thought going on behind his impulsive acoustic clatter. Maybe that’s why his solo acoustic work has so far had a lot more staying power than the fleeting pleasures of a single trip.”

- Marc Masters writing about How The Thing Sings on Pitchfork

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Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:54:00 -0800

"If you’re gonna play the blues you have to somehow address the fact that you’re not Robert Johnson"

Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:08:00 -0800

““If you’re gonna play the blues you have to somehow address the fact that you’re not Robert Johnson””

- Interview with Bill Orcutt in October’s Wire. (PDF)

PAL-006 Bill Orcutt 7” “A King or Something, Crossroads,...

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 08:01:00 -0700

PAL-006 Bill Orcutt 7”

“A King or Something, Crossroads, The Man in the Mirror b/w Sad Michael, Solitary Habits, Die Then Come Back To Life”

Edition of 200.

Available from Volcanic Tongue, Fusetron or on Tour.

Is Junk Power Absolute?/Bill Orcutt’s Lament

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:24:18 -0700

Is Junk Power Absolute?/Bill Orcutt’s Lament

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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 18:06:06 -0700

Editions Mego releases How The Thing Sings by Bill...

Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:34:00 -0700

Editions Mego releases How The Thing Sings by Bill Orcutt

“Yet another essential cracking new set of songs from Bill Orcutt, showcasing a further development of his unique visceral acoustic style. The language that Orcutt uses looks familiar at first glance, but cut deeper and its myriad of twisted audio thats both full on and drenched in melancholy, usually in the same gasping breath. While a lot of it is the classic face melting style, some quieter segments counter balance on the title track as well the epic closer ‘A Line From Ol’Man River’ and ‘Heaven Is Closed To Me Now’”

Available from Amazon, Forced Exposure, Boomkat, Mimaroglu & elsewhere.

Bill Orcutt at Franklin Art Works, 8/27/2011

Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:19:15 -0700

Bill Orcutt at Franklin Art Works, 8/27/2011

Poster by Seripop

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 08:36:00 -0700

Poster by Seripop

"Four more sides of a carpenter sawing through your psyche. Bill Orcutt’s visceral threnodies..."

Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:54:00 -0700

“Four more sides of a carpenter sawing through your psyche. Bill Orcutt’s visceral threnodies alternate between barbed wire and lonesome lunar baying, maybe with a bit more separation between the styles than what was found on A New Way to Pay Old Debts. Here we sense skill turning into mastery, a language being refined after its creation. Orcutt still leaves the dried blood on the strings of that hotrodded Kay acoustic, and he walks right up and smacks you in the face on “Bored with the Moon” (listen, you’ll hear what I mean).”

- Review by Doug Mosurock in Dusted

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Fri, 08 Jul 2011 07:44:00 -0700

PAL-005 Bill Orcutt 7” “Tic Fit” b/w “Bored with the...

Sun, 08 May 2011 11:21:00 -0700

PAL-005 Bill Orcutt 7”

“Tic Fit” b/w “Bored with the Moon”

Edition of 200.

Available from Volcanic Tongue, Forced Exposure, Fusetron or on Tour.

PAL-004 Bill Orcutt 7” “All Tongues” b/w “Tender...

Sun, 08 May 2011 11:20:00 -0700

PAL-004 Bill Orcutt 7”

“All Tongues” b/w “Tender Bottoms”

Edition of 200.

Available from Volcanic Tongue, Forced Exposure, Fusetron or on Tour.

Bill Orcutt – interview for the Athens-based blog 06:00am

Sun, 08 May 2011 11:00:33 -0700

Bill Orcutt – interview for the Athens-based blog 06:00am

"Orcutt’s playing expands on concrete moments, historical or temporary. There is a grounded,..."

Sun, 08 May 2011 10:54:00 -0700

“Orcutt’s playing expands on concrete moments, historical or temporary. There is a grounded, mono-chordal sanity even to his more free pieces, and his periodic non-word moans and shouts bring an eerie hoodoo feel to the set (which The Wire referred to at the time as Orcutt’s “spooky boogie”), as if trying to channel the same angels or demons that Fahey tried to evoke with his motel room Tuva throat singing.”

- Mike Wood writing about A New Way To Pay Old Debts in Perfect Sound Forever