Nick Waterhouse The Fooler LP 180g 1LP Gone are the big beats

Gone are the big beats and glossy production that resulted in tracks like "Summertime Sadness

While Dan Auerbach's overdriven ax is powered by the same internal-combustion engine that drove blues legends Junior Kimbrough and Fred McDowell

with Dio-inspired chugs behind Foge

and how they interact

Nick Waterhouse The Fooler LP 180g 1LP Gone are the big beatsThe title of the sixth album from Californian singer songwriter Nick Waterhouse is more than just the name of one of its tracks. The Fooler is both a clue and a red herring. The Fooler is the observed and the observer, narrator and subject, truth and lie. The Fooler is the shadow and reflection of a city the artist knows sufficiently well to wander with his eyes closed, and a place which very possibly never even existed. The Fooler is not so much an