New album ‘lost weekend’ out now!
“The Blank Tapes told us to never get old, and like any good advice, we've been trying to live it ever since, drenched in the band's laid-back, California haze. At the heart of it all is Matt Adams, a quiet storm with a head full of kaleidoscopic sounds. Adams' multi-instrumental mastery is a call to anyone looking for something smoother than a jolt. His dream mix of psych-soul, hippie funk and '60s pop has just enough fuzz to keep it from floating away.”
-Las Vegas Weekly 2025
Lost Weekend was mostly recorded in a makeshift studio in a Flamingo Heights home by Joe Napolitano in mid December of 2015. With Matt Adams on electric guitar, Will Halsey (of Sugar Candy Mountain) on drums, Joe Lewis on bass, and Connor “Catfish” Gallaher on pedal steel, they tracked the basic tracks for 18 songs of folk and cosmic country. Over the years Matt recorded the rest of the album with Joe Napolitano in various LA and Yucca Valley studios. Singers Veronica Bianqui, Sarah Barlow and Spencer Grossman added their harmonies to the album with Kyle O’Donnell returning on sax and Kaitlin Wolfberg adding her lush violins to 3 of the songs. Mark Matos (Trans Van Santos) even helped with a few lyrical suggestions here and there. In 2023 Jason Cirimele of Pescadero finished up the album with Matt and Paul Oldham mastered it. Matt made the album artwork using disposable camera photos from around 2012. The cover being Matt at Cadillac Ranch in Amarillo, Texas.
“This album is a collection of some of my more Americana songs I was writing from about 2008 to 2011 in Oakland and Big Sur and then later from 2011-2013 in LA and all across the USA on tour. There’s quite a few songs about heartache and feeling alone, a few songs about California, a couple folky tunes, some ballads and one kinda wild song with vintage sound FX. Although I’m usually known for my more upbeat retro surf pop stuff, this slow folky, country style is a bit of a continuation from my earlier Blank Tapes albums Slow Easy Death and Landfair. The biggest distinction however is that this is the first Blank Tapes album to feature pedal steel. It also has more of a live band feel seeing as we recorded the basic tracks as a 4 piece. The song title and album title was inspired by John Lennon’s own “Lost Weekend” when he split from Yoko in the early 70’s. After 10 years, Lost Weekend is no longer lost!” - Matt Adams