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Ben Labat’s New Album Finds Folk-Rock Inspiration in Sonar
Louisiana musician Ben Labat has released Echolocationism, a folk-rock album inspired in part by how marine animals use echolocation to navigate.
Labat once fronted the alt-rock band the Terms and previously worked as a physics teacher.
The album is his seventh studio LP since 2006, and he wrote 10 of its 11 tracks.
He recorded it himself, playing a Martin D-28 acoustic guitar that belonged to his grandfather and that he later bought back.
Its stripped-back sound reflects Labat’s preference for simple songs as music increasingly uses artificial intelligence and technology, he says.
The album also includes a cover of Harry Styles’ “Matilda,” which Labat says is his daughter’s favorite song.
Ben Labat’s new album, Echolocationism, draws on marine animals’ use of echolocation to navigate.
The former physics teacher recorded the folk-rock album himself, playing his grandfather’s Martin D-28 acoustic guitar.
Labat wrote 10 of its 11 tracks; the remaining song is a cover of Harry Styles’ “Matilda.”
He says the album’s songs reflect finding new paths and adapting to changes in life.
Echolocationism is Labat’s seventh studio album since 2006.
- Who
- Ben Labat, a former physics teacher and former frontman of the Louisiana alt-rock band the Terms.
- What
- He recorded Echolocationism, a folk-rock album inspired in part by marine animals’ echolocation.
- When
- The album’s release date is not stated.
- Where
- Not stated.
- Why
- Labat says he was drawn to simple lyrics and melodies, and to the idea of finding new paths and embracing change.
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Labat’s former band the Terms released its debut album, Small Town Computer Crash.
Rolling Stone published an article about Labat’s Echolocationism.
- Album
- Echolocationism
- Tracks written by Labat
- 10 of 11
- Cover song
- Harry Styles’ “Matilda
- Instrument
- Martin D-28 acoustic guitar
- Studio albums since 2006
- Seven
What people are saying
It’s really about finding that new path
It felt good to just be me and an acoustic guitar.
I started digging through the songs that never made it to a full-band cut, and then they just kind of all came together
You’re gonna have to embrace the change, and sometimes, things are gonna happen and you won’t be the same.