When Caleb Landry Jones, the actor known for turned-to-ten roles in films like Get Out, Heaven Knows What, and Twin Peaks: The Return, announced a solo album in 2020, I immediately jumped on it. I was pleasantly surprised by its sound, a high-ambition melange of ‘60s-era baroque pop and progressive rock. Just over a year later, Jones revealed a sophomore record, Gadzooks Vol. 1, which doubles down on The Mother Stone’s strengths while cutting its runtime in half; it runs the gamut from the pop of “Yesterday Will Come” to a 22-minute musique-concrete closer “This Won’t Come Back.”
This time around I got the chance to speak with Jones, a true original: an unpretentious, unreconstructed artist. He’s given to friendly bouts of laughter that punctuate and ironize his points. The conversation we had, presented here, is an extension of his music: eccentric, funny, prone to digression and jam.
The...
This time around I got the chance to speak with Jones, a true original: an unpretentious, unreconstructed artist. He’s given to friendly bouts of laughter that punctuate and ironize his points. The conversation we had, presented here, is an extension of his music: eccentric, funny, prone to digression and jam.
The...
- 9/23/2021
- by Matthew Danger Lippman
- The Film Stage
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