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Late Style

by Wesley Stace

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1.
Where the Bands Are 02:57
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2.
Everything All the Time 03:45
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3.
Your Bright Future 07:40
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4.
Hey! Director 03:18
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5.
Come Back Yesterday 03:14
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6.
All the Yous 03:54
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7.
The California Fix 04:04
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8.
Well Done Everyone 02:51
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9.
The Impossible She 05:04
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10.
Do Nothing If You Can 03:33
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11.
Just Sayin' 02:46
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12.
How You All Work Me 03:59
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Late Style - Wesley Stace's brilliant 2021 album.

"On Late Style, Wes is wearing a closetful of new clothes, gathered from the place where jazz and pop and soul and country blend into something colorful, seductive and smooth — a little Gary McFarland (no stranger to flavoring his arrangements with social commentary), Mose Allison, Carla Bley, Nina Simone’s beautiful interpretations of great protest songs, the romantic wit of Bob Dorough, Dorothy Ashby, the arrangements of Jean-Claude Vannier and the beautiful Cadet productions of Richard Evans, Steely Dan, some Gabor Szabo, Harry Nilsson, the soulful protest of Gil Scott-Heron, the Bee Gees, Tom Lehrer, the Carpenters, whose “Close to You” has been in his set list for years, and even the Partridge Family (“Come Back Yesterday”).

Late Style is influenced by these artists without imitating them, so the songs feel modern and “modern” all at once, with Latin and jazz touches, and keyboards rather than guitar central to the sounds. And, for all the polish and lightness of touch, there is something vaguely unsettling about some of these tunes: the lockdown jam “Do Nothing If You Can,” the older-and-wiser-but-still-cocky vibe of “Where the Bands Are,” or the cinematic and apocalyptic “Your Bright Future.” You can call them uneasy easy listening — smooth, but oddly shaped, with surprising harmonic changes and rhythmic angles. They have the paradoxical flavor of having been written to be hits without any thought of having hits at all."

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released September 17, 2021

Produced by DAVID NAGLER and CHRIS VON SNEIDERN Arranged by DAVID NAGLER
Mixed by CHRIS VON SNEIDERN

BRIAN J. CAMPBELL saxophone
DANNY CAO trumpet
KELLY HOGAN harmony vocals
DAVID NAGLER keyboards, acoustic guitars, virtual instruments and harmony vocals
NORA O'CONNOR harmony vocals
PRAIRIE PRINCE drums
MAURO REFOSCO percussion
WESLEY STACE vocals and whistling
CHRIS VON SNEIDERN electric guitar and harmony vocals

Recorded at:

TAPE VAULT STUDIO, San Francisco, Californa (by Chris von Sneidern)
STUDIO 1935, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (by Peter Rydberg)
TIFFANY RECORDING, Brooklyn, New York and
BIRCHWOOD BASEMENT, Lenox, Massachusetts (by David Nagler)
RELIABLE RECORDERS, Chicago, Illinois (by Alex Hall)

Songs written by Wesley Stace and David Nagler [Townsongs(ASCAP), administered by Superior Music Publishing; The One That Sings Music (BMI)]

Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music

Cover painting by Tony Stella
Photography by llya Mirman
Design by Sheila Sachs

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Wesley Stace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Since his critically acclaimed 1990 debut Here Comes the Groom (lauded by the LA Times as “the first great rock record of the `90s”) John Wesley Harding has recorded 19 records for both major (Sire, Hollywood) and independent (Mammoth, Rhino, Appleseed) labels alike. His novels have been published by Little Brown and Picador in the U.S. ... more

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