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Jun 26, 2024 · As he preps the new record, the first vinyl release on Island House, Keen proves as mercurial as ever. The album opens with a country countenance, slips through jazz shadows with the help of friends on clarinet, keys, steel, and brass, and inhabits corners of more than a few fragrant locales.
4 days ago · I Saw A Bug isn’t a lonesome highway; it’s an American cabaret. There are backcountry signifiers, to be sure—banjo and pedal steel and fingerstyle guitar—but there are also eerie synths and drum machines and MIDI programming that make the album feel like a slightly extraterrestrial simulacrum of American music.
Jun 27, 2024 · Island House Recording’s first vinyl release is an excellent one from Minneapolis-based multi-instrumentalist Pat Keen. Keen’s I Saw A Bug is a diverse LP consisting of sixteen tracks that are hard to pin down. Keen contains multitudes embodied in these sixteen short instrumental songs.
3 days ago · Produced by Shane Leonard and featuring regular contributors Pat Keen (bass, synth, percussion), and Pete Quirsfeld (drums and percussion), the album Right On also handles heavier themes, at times addressing conflict and difficulties in interesting and empathetic ways.
Jun 25, 2024 · Cold and Brisk Pat Keen is a multi-instrumentalist whose compositions are imbued with diverse wealths of inspiration. Elements of electronic, folk, pop, jazz, Americana, tropicália, and beyond can be discerned in I Saw a Bug, the latest, undulating solo album from the Minneapolis-based musician.
4 days ago · Pat Keen :: I Saw A Bug. I Saw A Bug isn’t a lonesome highway; it’s an American cabaret. There are backcountry signifiers, to be sure—banjo and pedal steel and fingerstyle guitar—but there are also eerie synths and drum machines and MIDI programming that make the album feel like a slightly extraterrestrial simulacrum of American music.
Jun 28, 2024 · Artist: Pat Keen. Album title: I Saw A Bug. Release date: June 25, 2024. Genre(s): Rock, Experimental Folk, Jazz. Info/credits: I Saw A Bug was recorded at houses and apartments in Minneapolis, MN; Taos, NM; and Los Angeles, CA 2020-2022. Produced by Pat Keen and Dex Wolfe.
