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WARHOLA. A strikethrough. An erasure. Andy’s immigrant name (before he was an A-lister). Welcome to the world of Famous Letter Writer: their debut record an homage to pop’s roots--made in Greenpoint Brooklyn’s historic Pencil Factory. Here are two minute pop songs containing history. Solidarity. Here’s CBGB and the ODB. White-wigged Warhol? He’s “white Iverson” (Post Malone: sorry). Here’s the violence and the glory of the American panorama where “every cut turns you into a blade” (or a blade of grass): a literary, lyrical tour de force set to a synth sensibility, gritty, witty, and combustible. Fresh and at once familiar, earwormy but experimental, here’s a record as ambitious in its cultural mapping as Wilco’s Yankee Foxtrot Hotel. Album cover art is by famed graphic designer Crisis. WARHOLA is a record that asks us to remember where pop came from--and dream about where it can go.
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