Mo Beauty for Clap Your Hands Frontman Alec Onunsworth

First Kyp Malone, then Julian Casablancas, and now Alec Onunsworth; we guess something about the summer makes everyone wanna fly solo.

Alec Onunsworth has announced his solo album, Mo Beauty, will be released on Oct. 20 through Anti-Records.

The album was recorded in New Orleans and boasts of some Big Easy regulars. Ounsworth is backed by George Porter, Jr. on bass (The Meters), Robert Walter on keys (The Greyboy Allstars), Stanton Moore (Galactic) on drums and Matt Sutton on baritone and pedal-steel guitars. A few notables in the community including  Mark Mullins, Craig Klein, Greg Hicks, Washboard Chaz, Shannon Powell, John Boutte, Al "Carnival Time" Johnson and Meschiya Lake also dropped in on the fun.

"...New Orleans informed the spirit of the record, as it should. It's not a 'New Orleans record,' though, because, besides "Holy, Holy, Holy Moses," most of the songs weren't written specifically for New Orleans," says Ounsworth. "...Any record can be influenced by its location aesthetically, and some are more than others.  So it was with this record... it is New Orleans, after all."

Steve Berlin (Los Lobos, John Lee Hooker, The Replacements) produced the album.

Mo Beauty Tracklist:

1. Modern Girl (... with scissors)
2. Bones in the Grave
3. Holy, Holy, Holy Moses (song for New Orleans)
4. That is not my Home (after Bruegel)
5. Idiots in the Rain
6. South Philadelphia (Drug Days)
7. What Fun.
8. Me and You, Watson
9. Obscene Queen Bee #2
10. When You've No Eyes

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