(2021) Daniel Romano's Outfit - Fully Plugged In
Review:
At this point, you shouldn’t call any Daniel Romano album drop a “surprise release,” since they pretty much all come with little to no warning. This means they’d only really be a surprise if we actually got a heads-up. So, no matter how you cut it, Daniel Romano’s Outfit have given us a surprise: they’ve dropped a new live album, and announced a studio album coming later this year. Recorded live in Atlanta in early 2020 in the final hours before the stages of the aching world fell dark, and the wandering, yearnful musicians were sent home to recollect, to reminisce, to plan – or in the case of the famously prolific Daniel Romano to reactive a dedicated studio practice – Fully Plugged In celebrates the sweat filled nights, the communal noise, the profound physical presence at the heart of rock and roll. Together the Outfit bring a classic swagger, an epic, electric, eternal folk, a primal freedom to a setlist drawn from Romano’s rich songbook, (the Kink’s God’s Children sticking around long enough to get a full (and beautiful) run-through). Outfit singer Julianna Riolino, who’s voice blends so perfectly with Romano’s own, steps powerfully into the spotlight at key moments, ripping open the song in surprising opener “Rhythmic Blood” and ripping open your heart in the country weeper “The One That Got Away (Came Back Today)”.
Track Listing:
01 - Rhythmic Blood (Live)
02 - God's Children (Live)
03 - Impossible Green (Live)
04 - Anyone's Arms (Live)
05 - First Yoke (Live)
06 - All the Reaching Trims (Live)
07 - She Was the World to Me (Live)
08 - The One Got Away (Came Back Today) (Live)
09 - Gone Is (All But a Quarry of Stone) (Live)
10 - A Rat Without a Tale (Live)
11 - I'm Alone Now (Live)
12 - The Pride of Queens (Live)
Media Report:
Genre: americana, rock
Format: FLAC
Format/Info: Free Lossless Audio Codec, 16-bit PCM
Bit rate mode: Variable
Channel(s): 2 channels
Sampling rate: 44.1 KHz
Bit depth: 16 bits
