In Tall Buildings

Akinetic, the new album from Chicago songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Erik Hall’s one-man polymathic project In Tall Buildings sees its creator plunge headlong into allegories of communication, loss, impulse, vice, and mass-denialism. With the addition of producer and engineer Brian Deck (Modest Mouse, Iron & Wine) Hall crashes through the aforementioned subject matter with brightness and lucidity, yielding his most intelligent and focused songwriting yet. Working out of his house with Deck in Pilsen, Chicago, Hall’s efforts yield ten tracks of spacious and textured handmade pop, comprising one of the most sharply written and deftly recorded home-studio albums in memory.

Released March 2, 2018 on Western Vinyl, Akinetic could not have transpired in any other time. Since his 2015 LP, Driver, Erik Hall has produced records for ambient artist Justin Walter and labelmates Lean Year, all while touring perpetually and sowing the seeds for his own new album. Where his previous titles were natural documents of his musicianship and songcraft, Akinetic arose from deliberate intent to write in concrete pop forms, lyrically informed by what he observed of modern culture, namely its fixation on technology-driven pseudo-progress at the cost of direct communication. “Rather than merely dwell in an inviting musical bed,” Hall states, “I wanted to write songs with intentionality that would more directly declare themselves to a listener instead of just passively inviting them in.

Past Shows


Apr
22
nd
2018
Palace Theatre
Apr
22
nd
2018
Palace Theatre

Lord Huron

with In Tall Buildings
Jul
19
th
2015
7th St Entry
Jul
19
th
2015
7th St Entry

Natalie Prass

with In Tall Buildings
May
19
th
2015
Turf Club
May
19
th
2015
Turf Club

The Lonely Wild

with Little Fevers and In Tall Buildings
Jul
10
th
2011
7th St Entry
Jul
10
th
2011
7th St Entry

In Tall Buildings

with Howler and Kevin Steinman
Mar
25
th
2011
Mainroom
Mar
25
th
2011
Mainroom

The Rural Alberta Advantage

with James Vincent McMorrow and In Tall Buildings

More Shows

May
17
th
First Avenue

The Devil Makes Three

with Bridge City Sinners
May
2
nd
Turf Club

Papooz

Apr
21
st
First Avenue

James Bay

Mar
1
st
First Avenue

Michael Marcagi