Two years ago, David Bazan was four weeks away from turning in Havasu, his sixth album as Pedro The Lion, when he called his label to tell them he was scrapping the deadline.
The bones of the project fit together fine: this was the second in a five-album arc about Bazan’s childhood, each record devoted to a place he lived while his father, a Pentecostal music pastor, moved from flock to flock across the United States.
Bazan had worked every bit as hard on Havasu as he had on Phoenix, the first in the series. He’d traveled back to Lake Havasu, the synthetic desert city where he spent seventh grade, four or five times; he’d revisited innocuous intersections and felt his memories rush back.
He’d taken notes, traced out melodies. “And I just realized that there were some thematic things on the record that I understood I wanted to do, but that I was not capable of doing, because I had some more personal work to do,” Bazan says now over the phone from his home in Edmonds, Washington. “I couldn't even hear my own feelings, because I was so concerned about the feelings of my parents and my sister and my kids' mom.
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