Paper Cuts: Alejandro Escovedo’s Deconstructed “Bury Me” and Five More Songs
Alejandro Escovedo, “Bury Me”
Piranha Records in Round Rock stocks an Alejandro Escovedo genesis point: S.F. punks the Nuns. A half-century later, the journeyman Texan beats every ounce as avant-garde. Due March 29, just-announced Echo Dancing documents the local Hill Country bard reinterpreting 14 songs spanning first solo release Gravity (1992) to latest studio offering The Crossing (2018). Opening the deconstructionist disc is "Bury Me," a mortal rumination off his first album. Where the original murmured Lone Star roots mysticism, its redo strips down to West Texas skeletal, a High Plains electro eclecticism full of paranormal innuendo. Le Tigre remixes Escovedo? Eventually. – Raoul Hernandez