Sad13 - Haunted Painting (CD)
- Format
- Vinyl LP
- Genre
- Rock
- Catalog No.
- LP-WIX-06
- Pressing
- Download Card
- Edition
- Limited Edition
Haunted Painting is the return to Sadie Dupuis' pop-oriented solo project Sad 13. Previous releases include 2016's Slugger and a handful of tracks across compilations such as Adult Swim's Singles series. Since Slugger, Dupuis' other project Speedy Ortiz has released a new record and toured heavily and Dupuis has also published a poetry manuscript titled Mouthguard. It all finds Dupuis, already one of the sharpest lyricists of her generation, leveling up as an arranger and producer. Drawing inspiration from 1980s British pop-rock à la Tracy Ullman and Joan Armatrading, as well as the contemporary digital gloss of post-PC Music electronica, she calls Haunted Painting ""decidedly non-minimal,"" mixing technicolor synth-pop and math-rock dynamism. The first track from Haunted Painting, ""WTD?"", was also featured as part of the Adult Swim Singles series.1. Sad13 - Into the Catacombs2. Sad13 - WTD?3. Sad13 - Hysterical4. Sad13 - Ghost (of a Good Time)5. Sad13 - Oops...!6. Sad13 - Good Grief7. Sad13 - Ruby Wand8. Sad13 - With Baby9. Sad13 - The Crow10. Sad13 - Take Care11. Sad13 - Market HotelÂ
- Format
- CD
- Genre
- Rock
- Pressing
- Booklet
2020 release. Haunted Painting, Sad13's second album and first for Dupuis' label Wax Nine (Melkbelly, Johanna Warren), marks her return to artmaking. ""Some of these songs feel like emotions that came from a cloud, and I was trying to translate them,"" she says. But the scope of a Sad13 song is rarely only personal. As ever, Sad13 weaves timely societal critiques into rushing hooks and whip-smart wordplay that's all still a blast: riffer ""WTD"" is about climate gentrification and billionaires' consequent desire to colonize the ocean and space.
