Former Ponytail guitarist-turned-psych-pop-singer/songwriter Dustin Wong will release his second solo album Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads on Feb. 21 via Thrill Jockey.
Wong worked with a spazzy group of players in Ponytail, but he is now a solo artist in the most literal sense. On his debut Infinite Love and Dreams, he crafts songs by himself with just his guitar and effects pedals for a lulling, spacey experience. You can check out the first single "Evening Curves Straight" here.
After a brief, acclaimed string of albums, Ponytail broke up in September, and Wong recently moved from Baltimore to New York. It's been a time of change for Wong recently, and that has bled through to his music.
"The difference between my last album and the album coming up is the involvement and presentation. There are a lot more layers than the last album and my tools are explored more in depth and the songs run a little longer as well," he says. "The presentation is different, I have a title for each song this time. With the prior, the series of songs were presented as a whole. The recording process itself was flipped around too, with Infinite Love everything was recorded track by track. Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads was mainly all recorded live, as a whole."
Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads
1. Ice Sheets on Feet Prints
2. Feet Prints on Flower Dreads
3. Abstract Horse Slow Motion
4. Tea Tree Leaves Retreat
5. Triangle Train Stop
6. Toe Tore Oh
7. On/In the Way
8. Pink Diamond
9. Purple Slipped Right
10. Route Through Eyebrow
11. Sprinkle Wet Toes
12. Pencil Drove Hill Moon
13. Evening Curves Straight
14. Back Towards Night
15. Space Tunnel Graffiti
16. Diagonally Talking Echo
