Buendía is our new record. It's streaming everywhere. Find it on Spotify here, or buy it on Bandcamp here. We started this record on March 1st, 2020. What began as an exercise in writing and recording songs at home morphed into a full blown album by the time self isolation and quarantine kicked in around the world. What was there to do but finish the record?
We had already decided to play and record everything ourselves. Mix it ourselves. It finally left our house to be mastered by our friend Jamie at Portside Sound.
But it’s not a quarantine record. We were already locked away and working on it. Did a global pandemic influence it? It’d be hard pressed not to, I suppose. Our lives changed while making it, like everyone else’s. But this is much more a group of songs written during the beauty of Spring in Alabama. About life, renewal, change. They are optimistically haunted.
We went to the well and it provided, and we whittled it down to nine songs, plus a cover. We did what was fun, and what felt meaningful. What was interesting. We tried to make moods like Carel Weight paints, Pierre Reverdy poeticizes, Gabriel García Márquez writes (the family from his masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude, we adopted as the album title). But there were also King of the HIll episodes playing in the next room, through an open door. Take what you want.
We recorded on days with perfect skies and green explosions of life. We recorded on days and nights with tornado sirens roaring. Spring, beautiful and deadly. The full weight of the Earth.
We set out with a deadline in mind, and finished tracking in early April on my (Adam’s) 30th birthday. I can put headphones on and take a walk in our neighborhood with this record, and it feels right. That’s all we can ask for.
We hope you enjoy it, too.
Adam and Nat.
