El Honko Mixed, by Gobby

El Honko Mixed

by Gobby

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1.	Tweety Pez 00:51	buy track
2.	Dish Z: Night In the Death Of A Dishwasher 05:11	buy track
3.	CK4: Nightmare 02:53	buy track
4.	Leper 1: Masshole 02:30	buy track
5.	Huehuetenango 03:02	buy track
6.	Chinese Western 00:54	buy track
7.	Catechizm 04:17	buy track
8.	Leper 2: Pamphlets In Providence 02:13	buy track
9.	Gassy 01:15	buy track
10.	CK3: In Loving Murmury 01:09	buy track
11.	On the Phone W/ Parents 05:10	buy track
12.	Sinner Pace 02:42	buy track
13.	Leper 3: South 02:32	buy track
14.	Before Dark 07:11	buy track
15.	Dish Y: Jugwasher 02:34	buy track
16.	Chinese Food 02:39	buy track
17.	Leper 4: Manhattan Madness 02:21	buy track
18.	Tourism 07:11	buy track
19.	Spongubobbu 00:47	buy track
20.	CK2: Escort 02:10	buy track
21.	SUICIDE 05:25	buy track
22.	MassPike 02:42	buy track
23.	El Sombreron 06:44	buy track
24.	Leper 5: Helicopter Rescue 01:57	buy track
25.	CK1: Empty Room 01:57	buy track
26.	Dish X: Medieval Morning 01:08	buy track
27.	Western China 00:19	buy track
28.	Life Of A Bus Boy 04:41	buy track

about

GOBBY’s EL HONKO MIXED is a double-LP-length musical/audiobook, and the official follow-up to his DFA full-length NO MERCY BAD POET.

EL HONKO MIXED is, roughly, a memoir composed of three timelines interspersed with distended quasi-covers and actual pop songs, all swirled into a larger semi-biographical scope: Dish X, Y, Z function as a videogame OST from the POV of a character who keeps getting reincarnated as a dishwasher through various eras (Middle Ages, Wild West, NYC 2012); CK1-4 are about “sex and the internet and loneliness”; while Leper l-V is a recurring leitmotif about wandering—“sort of about the horror of touring as an uninspired individual and playing bars and basements - also just about having to walk around and the stuff we have to do that involves complete strangers.”

Simultaneously, the narrative of EL HONKO takes Gobby’s formative experiences in New England and on the East Coast (combined with riffs on an uninformed family history/lineage) and paints a cringey portrait of drab New England circa 2017. With a palette drawn from pure pop songwriting / radio theater / tangled jazz forms / nightmarishly cartoonish bing-boing electronics / podcasts / and pounding, distortion-laced noise-rock, the sprawling American-song-form deconstructions of EL HONKO MIXED extend Gobby’s trademark combination of the sinister and silly.

GOBBY is from Boston, Massachusetts. After barely graduating high school by 0.5 percent on a required history test, he went to Roxbury Community College for accounting for like a semester I think while dishwashing at Panera. That was wack as hell so then he went to NYC to further pursue a dishwashing career, while DJing and sometimes performing live music and drawing. His ears haven’t stopped ringing in a
decade - his ear doctor recommended he get hearing aids - he’s still working on that and getting insurance and stuff.

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released November 23, 2017

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