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“How the fuck are we going to turn this into a song?” That’s the
question Lou Barlow and John Davis have asked themselves since
co-founding The Folk Implosion in the early 1990s. Beginning with
improvised jams featuring Barlow on bass and Davis on drums, the duo
develop their beat-driven pop collages from the ground up. It’s the
process they used on their debut cassette, Walk Through This World
with the Folk Implosion, and one they’ve returned to 30 years later on
their spellbinding, self-referencing reunion, Walk Thru Me.Separated from their homes in Massachusetts and North Carolina,
Barlow and Davis collaborated remotely, flashing back to their early
friendship as penpals. A sweaty bass and drums session went down in
Barlow’s attic, before they booked studio time with producer Scott
Salter (St. Vincent, Spoon, The Mountain Goats).Contrasts and comparisons are the keys to unlocking Walk Thru Me,
and the Folk Implosion as a whole. Beyond the audible differences
between Barlow’s soft voice and Davis’s urgent, reedy proclamations,
their approaches to songwriting are strikingly distinct. While Barlow
approached his lyrics from a protective paternal perspective (“My
Little Lamb”), Davis paid tribute to his late father, shining a light on
their complicated relationship (“The Day You Died”). Finally, Davis’s
Persian music studies in weekly Zoom lessons inspired him to integrate
traditional Middle Eastern instruments such as the setar, oud, saz, and
tombak.“Because we’re so separate, part of this album is me desperately trying
to telepathically communicate to John and Scott, who are 700 miles
away from me,” Barlow concludes. “A big part of what I consider to be
the Folk Implosion is taking disparate things and turning them into
pop.”
