Famous Letter Writer

Famous Letter Writer returns… with DADAMAMA (I/Thou). From pop’s childhood (WARHOLA, 2020) to its complicated family...

If Picasso and Joan Miró drove a Kia Soul, that’s Famous Letter Writer to a T: art pop where nothing’s impossible. Poet/composer M.I. Devine (author of Warhol’s Mother’s Pantry) and composer/multi-instrumentalist Ru Devine marry poetic lyricism with pop hooks in DADAMAMA. A cinematic, surrealist diary of making a home, a family, a world, DADAMAMA is a redrawing of the band's sonic blueprint. Simpler, more direct, so much longing in so little space--a pop song. The result: a searching, emotional landscape of studio precision and the found sounds of childhood — Man Ray meets the playground, life’s static meets love’s hooks.

The long-awaited response to 2020’s WARHOLA (produced by indie legend Keith Zarriello of The Shivers), DADAMAMA emerged from isolation, the artists raising a growing family, tracking the songs in barns and homes across New York’s North Country, including sessions at the Crane School of Music in Potsdam, co-produced with experimental sound artist and musician Claude Aldous. Where WARHOLA asked how pop began (starting with Andy’s mythic childhood), DADAMAMA (i)--to be followed by a second EP (thou)--asks how we continue, finding the answer in family, solidarity, and as always, art. From the minimalism of Yves Klein to the vernacular of Frank O’Hara, from Minecraft to Frozen, there is a cast of thousands here.