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Will Phalen returns with a new album, a new band, and a dynamic new sound.

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On Holy Ghost/Gold Coast, Midwestern songwriter/producer, Will Phalen, momentarily steps outside the folk rock frame of his band, The Stereo Addicts, to explore the mellower callings of his muse.

The album’s ten songs were each written and recorded during Will’s first months living in Chicago, Illinois. Often composed and committed to tape in the course of one evening, these songs are the product of late nights and quiet places: Will at work in his tiny one-room apartment/studio while the neighbors slumbered next door.

Acting alone in this endeavor, Phalen played and sang all the parts on the album: fingerstyle guitar, banjo, accordion, harmonica, toy keyboards, concert bells, stylophone. Those sounds combine with broken drum beats, electronic pulses, and the timbre of household objects to define the record’s sonic palette as the songs call forth the ghosts of lost loves, lost youth, and the birth of a new Midwestern aesthetic: one centered on melody and storytelling colliding with flashes of the surreal and the psychedelic.


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Holy Ghost Gold Coast

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Psychedelic folk-rock born in the American Midwest.

With their sophomore release, Middle West, Will Phalen and the Stereo Addicts make another bold statement in defining the sound of Midwestern Folk-Rock. Nearly twelve months in the making, the self-produced, 10-song album stands as a testament to the group’s “do-it-yourself” Midwestern work ethic.  Middle West stands as a model of what simple means, lots of hard work, and passion can achieve.

The album’s title, Middle West, represents much more than a mere nod to the Stereo Addicts’ homeland. Phalen’s lyrics are impressionistic glimpses into the Midwestern landscape, its people and its psyche.  The Stereo Addicts fill out the tracks with a broad palette of sonic colors and hues. Folk instruments like banjo, acoustic guitar, and mandolin sit interact gracefully and tastefully with an array of analog synthesizers, chamber strings, concert bells and howling amplifiers. Building on the foundation set by their first release, Visions and Revisions, Will Phalen and the Stereo Addicts prove themselves to be inquisitive explorers on a search for a new Cosmic American Music – one firmly rooted in songs and sounds of the past, while maintaining a steady course set on the future.


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