Austin Sound

We have clearly been taking David Wingo and Ola Podrida waaaayyyyy too seriously. Ola Podrida’s debut was gorgeous, and last year’s sophomore LP put out by local imprint Western Vinyl, Belly of the Lion, was equally mesmerizing. Wingo’s songs are like half-remembered daydreams, but this, well this is just something else entirely. “In Soviet Russia, David Wingo dreams of you!” This little peep into our nightmares was envisioned by Todd Rohal, who directed The Guatemalan Handshake (starring Will Oldham, of course). So that explains that, maybe. This is really just one of those things that you have to watch, because us explaining it does no good. Wingo is currently off troubadouring in Spain, or somewhere in Europe. We can only assume he’s trying to nail down a collaboration with this guy. Video below:

Sorry old elementary school adage, but sometimes you can judge books by their cover, or in this case, an album. The cover for Ola Podrida’s Belly of the Lion, with its silhouetted figure half standing out in the waning sunlight, half blending into the flat Texas landscape, suggests a number of the isolating themes and sharp dynamics held within these otherwise soft layers of instruments and nonthreatening vocals. It’s a fitting image, too, as Ola Podrida’s sophomore album and debut on local label Western Vinyl also presents the return of David Wingo to Texas after time the songwriter spent in New York.

There’s something a little creepy about hearing David Wingo’s croaking voice filtered through a little girl, but then leave it to the amazing Zellner Brothers (creators of the Octopus Project’s incredible videos) to make the charming unexpectedly weird. We will say that David and Nathan Zellner manage to perfectly capture the sense of restless and youthful malaise and frustration that drips from the songs of Ola Podrida, but man, this little girl is gonna need some help by the time she’s a teenager. We think we saw her biting people in the mosh pit of the Gorilla Biscuits show at Fun Fun Fun Fest. “This Old World” is off of the freshly released sophomore album from Ola Podrida, Belly of the Lion, which was put out as another excellent release from local imprint Western Vinyl. We hear that there will be a local release show for the newly returned Austinite sometime soon, but it doesn’t appear that it’s been announced just yet, so the video below will have to do until then.