Name: Guitar Dream
Brand: David Vassalotti

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

WCR082CD

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Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2019-01-25

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

PIAS

Tax rate GB

UPC / Barcode

843563106846

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1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

WCR082LP

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843563106839

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

Artist

David Vassalotti

Genre GB

Alternative / Modern

Label GB

Wharf Cat

Although perhaps best known as lead guitarist for 4AD’s Merchandise, on his third solo LP, Guitar Dream, David Vassalotti’s abilities as a songwriter and multi-instrumentalist are finally given an opportunity to shine, thanks in no small part to the production and engineering talents of co-conspirator and Merchandise frontman Carson Cox. A quasi-breakup album voiced through a protean pastiche of dejected characters, Guitar Dream finds Vassalotti at his most up-front and confessional. While 2015’s genre-spanning Broken Rope was interspersed with loops, samples and sound-collages, Guitar Dream features more straightforward songwriting reminiscent of Merchandise’s melancholic post-punk balladry, albeit with an added dose of gravitas. Fractured glam, keyboard trumpets and, yes, the occasional guitar solo prop up Vassalotti’s dynamic vocals, ghostified by blankets of delay and reverb.

Guitar Dream

Music GB