Toil and Trouble

Description

The fourth solo album from Angelo De Augustine, ‘Toil and Trouble’ exists according to its own quixotic logic, inhabiting a psychic landscape as sublimely mystifying as a fever dream or fairy tale. In creating such an all-enveloping body of work, the southern California-based artist spent nearly three years working alone and exploring the vast expanse of his imagination. ‘This album came from thinking about the madness of the world right now and how overwhelming that can be’, says De Augustine. ‘I used a sort of counter-world as a guide to try to gain some understanding of what’s actually going on here – I had to take myself out of reality in order to try to understand reality’. At turns bewitching and devastating and ineffably lovely, the result is the most visionary work yet from a singular songwriter, revealing his profound capacity to alchemize pain into extraordinary beauty.

Tracklisting

Disc 1
1. Home Town – Angelo De Augustine
2. The Ballad of Betty and Barney Hill – Angelo De Augustine
3. Memory Palace – Angelo De Augustine
4. Healing Waters – Angelo De Augustine
5. The Painter – Angelo De Augustine
6. I Don’t Want to Live, I Don’t Want to Die – Angelo De Augustine
7. Another Universe – Angelo De Augustine
8. Song of the Siren – Angelo De Augustine
9. Blood Red Thorn – Angelo De Augustine
10. Naked Blade – Angelo De Augustine
11. D.W.O.M.M. – Angelo De Augustine
12. Toil and Trouble – Angelo De Augustine