Lee Baggett :: “Waves For A Begull” - Perpetual Doom
Following the exotic success of last winter’s “Echo Me On”, the story-telling tonality of the transcendental trickery of Lee Baggett has returned with yet another exciting installment in the iconography of sonic swells with “Waves For A Begull”. A splendid buffet of fuzzed out instrumentation and fictitious flow, Baggett sincerely surfs the salted horizon of melodic memory, mortality and perpetuated rhythm like that of Young and his cautious Cheiromancy. With familiar tones of the talking teeth chattering through the beached out mix, the nomadic songwriter weighs in on the simplistic luxury of manifesting both the marine and metaphysical life forms that dwell so freely within his naturalistic approach to music. From fruited legumes, comes this heroic tale of cosmic Cryptodira and their unique traveling paths across the aquatic atmosphere of our bustling blue planet and its warm glow from the stimulating sunset told in song, ceremony and seance. As rare a sighting as Bigfoot, or some yodeling yeti, Baggett is a shape-shifting deity of dogmatic proportions whose time is spent concurring the vibe. Teaming up with his home away from home, Perpetual Doom, Baggett enters this threshold of tonality and humorous harmony that is well celebrated and cherished within the legend’s repertoire of retro ramblings and “Waves For A Begull” is only a testament to his countless strengths as a songwriter. The album’s near sedative qualities capture this almost innocent landscape of cumbersome creatures, cosmic coincidences and the passionate paralysis of performance culture.
“Its just rock n’ roll...”
Through exhaling the exclamation and excitement of songwriting, Baggett and co. release into the wild the humming humanness of their beautiful brand of “Young-ian” material with an ageless sense of camaraderie and calloused jam sessions. The demeanor of the album is soothingly sophisticated, while closed eyes and opened ears enjoy the sweet embrace of self-taught Taoism in its many tunings and celebrated catharsis. An element that's considerably transparent on most of Baggett’s albums,“Waves For A Begull”, is this vibrational effort into eternity, where delights of harmonious conversation and planetary travel engulf the senses in perfect harmony. Residing at some remote residency of captivating comfort and ritualistic pursuit of righteous business, Baggett was joined by friends and bandmates Zeb Zaitz, Sam Farrell and Cory Gray to help ignite the explosive echos through a hot-wired valley of intoxicating imagery. With tracks such as “Used It Up”, the album’s first single, and title track “Waves For A Begull” and “No Sleeping Here” breaking the ears of its listeners longing for both the peace and rallying strength for all, Baggett delivers the skeleton key to a gateway into the vivid void of vulnerability. Set for release on the first of November, Baggett breathes an entirely epic breath of fresh ocean breeze into the saga of the sea with “Waves For A Begull” that ultimately reigns true to the legends outstanding output into the world of sound and vibe.
