MO BEAUTY - GRAY

Something of a love letter to New Orleans, Alec Ounsworth's Mo Beauty is finally available again on vinyl redesign featuring gatefold, spot gloss varnish, and marble smokey vinyl. The Steve Berlin (Los Lobos) produced "Mo Beauty" features Ounsworth's trademarks alongside New Orleans finest musicians (George Porter Jr., Stanton Moore, among others). The songs were written in conjunction with CYHSY material but, with this material, Ounsworth tried a different look. The limited deluxe reissue is being released in the wake of the 20th anniversary of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, the classic selftitled debut album, and it's celebratory 2025 worldwide tour. "Almost every tune on Mo Beauty equals or betters those on CYHSY's lauded 2005 debut" SPIN "That Is Not My Home (After Bruegel)", a set of vignettes each beginning with "me and the wife," set to a wonderful blend of swoony new wave, punchy brass, and torrid string swells, which just might be the best song he's ever done [...] an album that showcases the breadth of his talents" Pitchfork A fitting legacy to post-Katrina New Orleans and it's rich musical heritage and extraordinary musicianship, as well as further confirmation of Alec Ounsworth as a songwriter with the talent to work across genres and styles, crafting inspired music no matter how adventurous the ground he's covering. Vibrant and eclectic, it's a wonderfully rich collection of songs; strings swell, the horns are sassy and playful, and there are moments of haunting, crystalline beauty