Tony Molina

In The Fade Red Vinyl Edition

Red VinylIt would be impossible to encapsulate the entire Tony Molina musical worldview in a single record. This is a man whose home stereo,in a single day, could be blaring The Move, Malo, Internal Bleeding,Dear Nora, and The Melvins. All that said, you'd be hard pressed tofind a better entry point to his work than In the Fade, a record thataccording to the artist himself, ties the entire catalog together.Recorded in spurts over two years in the Bay Area with an array oflongtime friends and collaborators, In the Fade is a mix of both newand old for Tony's first solo album in four years. The record cametogether almost like a compilation, the result of Tony taking inventory of both his extensive solo career and his time in the criminally-underrated band Ovens in the early to mid 2000's. This introspection makes for a very "pop" album - hooks permeate the record'sheavier guitar-pop tunes as well as its more delicate folk-rock andindie-pop tracks. It's a return in part to the Ovens sound, but alsofeatures elements of his more recent material and introduces someintriguing new wrinkles.In the Fade evokes the sounds of some of Tony's favorite bands:Fastbacks, The Flaming Lips, The Muffs. There's a Black Sabbathcover, some reworked songs from his past and most important of all,some of Tony Molina's finest original songs to date. As a whole, Inthe Fade encompases every phase of his recording career to datewhile also fitting together as a tight, endlessly listenable album - ashowcase of Tony Molina's love for well-crafted songs that proveshe's one of the best in the game at writing them.