LIGHT SENSITIVE

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Plowboy Records proudly announces Paul Burch’s 11th album, “Light Sensitive.” Recorded in Nashville with his longtime band the WPA Ballclub with guests Luther Dickinson, Robyn Hitchcock, Amy Rigby, and Aaron Lee Tasjan, 'Light Sensitive' sounds both modern and instantly classic and punctuates Pop Matters’ statement that Burch is “one of the best damn songwriters operating today.” Burch makes music for the here and now, but rock & roll fervor is always just beneath the surface, as if William Faulkner’s secret son traded his typewriter for an electric guitar. 'Light Sensitive' is set in the modern South where the past and present cast dice over the future and merely wishing for something good comes at spectacular costs. The album's spirit of dislocation and lost opportunities was inspired by a visit to Burch's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. Co-produced with a light touch by Burch and Grammy winner and T-Bone Burnett collaborator/bassist Dennis Crouch, “Light Sensitive” features Burch’s WPA Ballclub, which can conjure beauty and bedlam in equal measure with a palpable chemistry that comes from two decades together. 'Light Sensitive' also continues the WPA Ballclub’s long tradition of including guests who share their sense of musical adventure. Aaron Lee Tasjan harmonizes on the “The Tell” and Amy Rigby leads a chorus of ethereal sorcerers in “Prince Ali’s Fortune Telling Book of Dreams.” Luther Dickinson adds his trademark slide guitar to “Fool About Me” and Robyn Hitchcock provides harmony and discord to a hapless traveler's airport dystopia in “Flight to Spain.” For the album’s marquee ballad “Marisol,” longtime musical partner Fats Kaplin’s viola takes the song's treatise on unrequited love to the brink of madness and back again.