Premiere: Rudy De Anda, ‘House Of Construction’

Daiana Feuer on June 20th, 2016

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Formerly known as Wild Pack Of Canaries’ frontman, Long Beach artist Rudy De Anda makes music under his own name now, releasing the Ikey Owens produced EP, “Ostranenie,” last year, as an appetizer to the full-length, “Delay, Cadaver of a Day,” being served by Porch Party Records on June 24. Recorded at Jazz Cat Studios, the new album is a psychedelic prog-pop odyssey, all dissonance and shoegaze in equal amounts tempered by the buoyancy of punk-rock spirit. De Anda describes it as “a black-and-white film shot in present time. It’s the soundtrack to a Criterion Collection piece based in L.A. with more surrealistic notes, feelings, and vibes.” With this cinematic scope in mind, each song can be approached as a picture frame or montage, heavy on mood and deliberate in details. The tune, “House Of Construction,” is “an optimistic outcry for the moment that breaks through the black bellied cloud of melancholy,” De Anda says. Paying homage to a band he loves, the title itself is the direct translation for “Bauhaus.” Shifting between hazy and perky, it’s like a shoegaze meditation on the moment when morning fog peels away to reveal sunshine — if that could only be condensed into one effects pedal.

||| Stream: “House Of Construction”