The New Folk Implosion

RESTOCK. “Now this is the record I needed to do,” says Lou Barlow about The New Folk Implosion. Barlow’s prodigious creative energy has manifested itself in 20 albums. From an early gig playing bass in Dinosaur Jr., to leading indie rock standard bearer Sebadoh and releasing cassettes of his lo-fi home taping solo project Sentridoh, through to scoring a Top 40 hit with “Natural One” from the Kids soundtrack with Folk Implosion, his quality to quantity ratio has been inordinately high. This is especially impressive given the variety contained in his discography -- each of those bands and projects had its own distinct identity, as defined by Barlow and his collaborators. A change in collaborators is in large part of what makes The New Folk Implosion, well, new. All past Folk Implosion releases were a product of the collaboration between Barlow and John Davis. With Davis retired (“he never really fully embraced being a musician as a lifestyle”) he decided to call the album The New Folk Implosion.