The Fooler - 2023 US Innovative Leisure Label 12-track LP

“We had a joke in the studio,” says Nick Waterhouse. “Some of the guys were like, ‘Nick, you’re gonna end up at a press conference like Dylan
in ’65: ‘Who’s The Fooler?’ ‘I don’t know, man, maybe it’s you! Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m becoming The Fooler right now…’”
The title of the sixth album from the Californian singer-songwriter is more than just the name of one of its dozen immaculate tracks. The Fooler
is both a clue and a red herring. The Fooler is the observed and the observer, narrator and subject, truth and lie. The Fooler is the shadow and
reflection of a city the artist knows sufficiently well to wander with his eyes closed, and a place which very possibly never even existed. The
Fooler is not so much an unreliable narrator as a constantly shifting perspective. The Fooler is the new album by Nick Waterhouse, and it’s a
lot.

ecorded by Mark Neill in Valdosta, Georgia, the album is a song-cycle of sorts, the arc of the album telling a tale of a city and its denizens.
“There’s a phase shift that occurred writing this record,” says Waterhouse. “I had a breakthrough in how to tell stories in songs. It’s like an
epiphany. I started realising how I could bend time in these words and a lot of the things that weave through the record. I have a perspective
as a narrator now, instead of being the occupant of the songs.”

Tracklisting.

1.Looking For A Place
2.Hide And Seek
3.(No) Commitment
4.Play To Win
5.Was It You
6.Late In The Garden
7.The Problem With A Street
8.Plan For Leaving
9.Are You Hurting
10.It Was The Style
11.The Fooler
12.Unreal, Immaterial