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EVENTS |
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| Jun 27 Austin, TX @ End of an Ear (5pm) |
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| Jul 8 Austin, TX @ Mohawk |
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| Jul 9 Houston, TX @ Mango's |
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| Jul 10 New Orleans, LA @ Circle Bar |
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| Jul 11 Tallahassee, FL @ Engine Room |
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| Jul 12 Savannah, GA @ Wormhole |
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| Jul 13 Charlotte, SC @ Snug Harbor |
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| Jul 14 Charlottesville, VA @ Twisted Branch Tea Bazaar |
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| Jul 15 Brooklyn, NY @ Littlefield |
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| Jul 16 Hamden, CT @ The Space |
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| Jul 17 New York, NY @ Cake Shop |
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| Jul 18 Pittsburgh, PA @ Garfield Artworks |
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| Jul 20 Athens, GA @ The Cine |
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| Jul 21 Atlanta, GA @ Drunken Unicorn |
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| Jul 22 Birmingham, AL @ Bottletree |
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| Jul 24 Denton, TX @ Hailey's |
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Check out the new Ola Podrida video for "The Closest We Will Ever Be" directed by Todd Rohal on Pitchfork TV here.
Ola Podrida recently recorded a session for WOXY's Lounge Acts series, you can listen to the show here. In April the band will tour Spain. In March they played at Denton's NX35 festival, followed by several performances at SXSW in Austin.
On February 28th the band performed a special show with good friends The Wooden Birds at the Scoot Inn in Austin, TX, which served as their first show with new drummer Dave Hobizal.
Ola's sophomore release Belly of the Lion is available. You can check out what Pitchfork has to say about the track "Your Father's Basement" here.
In addition to completing a stunning new album, Wingo recently finished composing and recording the soundtrack for Jared Hess' new film Gentlemen Broncos. You can read more about Belly of the Lion here. |
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“Ola Podrida is a cohesive, confident album full of folky, quiet guitars and thoughtful lyrics that coalesce into complete songs. But what sets the group apart from similar acts like Iron & Wine and Paul Duncan is its cinematic flair: Wingo treats his words like images, so that the music acts like a soundtrack that gently reinforces their meaning and impact.” |
– Pitchfork (8.0) |
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“This is "Texas Music", in the best sense of the phrase.” |
– Gorilla vs. Bear |
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“The folksy calm lets the songs feel easy, lets them feel familiar; and yet deep in there, beneath the easy and familiar songs, is something more than status quo. There's a fierceness that feeds these soft-voiced things, something far too sensuous for bedtime. If this were a 2006 album, it would be one of my albums of the year.” |
– Said the Gramophone |
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“unfailingly cinematic” |
– Exclaim |
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“Wingo's mastery of the sound is hard to deny" |
– Coke Machine Glow |
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“very good album…fantastic live show. Definitely worth checking out” |
– Brooklyn Vegan |
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“it's easy to fall prey to Ola Podrida's rustic charms” |
| – Textura |
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“…the upcoming album is a thing of quiet beauty reminiscent of the very best under-the-radar homegrown ’70s folk experiments…I have a feeling this is only the beginning.” |
– Aquarium Drunkard |
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“Ola Podrida excels at creating a beautifully atmospheric mood, as well as gentle beauty that's both spacious and deceptively complex….At the end of ‘Jordanna,’ Wingo sings, ‘I'm not sure there's any point to it all / but I sure loved hearing your voice,’ and the latter sentiment surely holds true here.” |
– NPR |
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“Wingo does his best work in scenes, crafting imagistic snapshots over a Hill Country backdrop, combining Iron & Wine's dusty lore with the breathy melancholy of Nick Drake.” |
– Austin Chronicle |
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“….this is what I'd hoped Grizzly Bear's Yellow House would sound like…Ola Podrida isn't just a strikingly accomplished debut—it's near-essential listening for anyone who's been taken with the recent turn in some parts of the indie cosmology towards folkier and more countrified sounds.” |
– Stylus Magazine |
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"Instruments layer together subtly and deftly, creating an atmosphere that brings to mind the wide Western plains or old, not-quite-forgotten lovers." |
– Spin |
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“..a pretty, Southern-inflected indie rock album, soft acoustic guitar arpeggios, various keyboard instruments, and brushed drums leading the way” |
– All Music Guide |
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“Ola Podrida have beaten Sufjan Stevens to the punch and recorded an aural-love letter to singer David Wingo’s Lone Star state.” |
– Pop Matters |
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“chock full of beautiful songs” |
| – My Old Kentucky Blog |
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