Album Notes

When Jason Lakis' last musical outfit, the acclaimed Bay Area band Half Film, parted ways, he did what any self-respecting musician does after a break up - he holed himself up in his house and emerged six months later with an album's worth of songs. The debut album from The Red Thread, After the Last, is what happened when Jason took his finely-crafted tunes to his friends from San Francisco-based band The Inspectors, and came back with a musical offering of slow-burning beauty and a sprinkling of countrified charm.

At the nucleus of their sound is the integration of whimsical spaghetti-western guitar licks, and driving stop-start rhythms with wistful, somber vocals that croon like a weathered cowboy who's seen too many rodeos. In other words, a little bit Calexico, a little bit Pinback, a little bit rock n' roll. The full-length album contains 9 tracks, including an almost unrecognizable, pedal-steel infused cover of Bad Brains' "Sailin' On."