Frog Eyes – Pickpocket's Locket CD

Pickpocket's Locket is an alternative, rock and pop album by Frog Eyes on Paper Bag. This is the CD edition. This edition was released on April 21, 2017.

Vinyl LP pressing. 2015 album from the Canadian alt-rock quartet. Pickpocket's Locket's genesis was a little different than usual. Main main Carey Mercer explains: "My dad left me his acoustic guitar in his will; it was all he had to give, because he wasn't a rich man. I wrote 10 songs on it, and I think that was the real gift he gave me: a love of music, not just the way you all love it (music lovers), but also a love of creating it, sowing myself, in some small way, into the story of music. I was holding the guitar a lot, kind of savoring it: a Martin D-18. I had been making records for a few years with a computer, piling tracks on tracks, writing words over guitar licks already recorded in a studio. I came to think of an acoustic guitar as somehow akin to a computer, only in the sense that they are both tools of transmission, both effective in their own way. An acoustic guitar is still, in 2015, a very effective way of transmitting one's songs. I made a deal with myself: write ten songs, write all the words before anyone gets to hear any of the songs, memorize the songs so that I become the hard-drive that the acoustic guitar accesses. I mostly, if not totally, kept to this deal, which is rare: I'm generally pretty easy on myself." The record features guest appearances by Spencer Krug, and violinist Jesse Zubot. REVIEW ''You've got death and exaltation, followed by a sly wink at rock history. Not a bad set of tools for making smart, defiant music.'' --Dusted Magazine''Howling voices, waves of super-fuzz, swirling riffs that are always tantalizingly out of grasp and the wild guttural sound of Tom Waits, Scott Walker or The National when they still had a pair.'' --Nme''Mercer's voice and lyrics have always struck the deepest chord'' --Consequence of Sound