Otro - Peanut Ballads For A Lone Star
Drowned By Locals
- 1Brings You The Moon (Overture)
- 2Ads In Our Stars
- 3Ti Amo Topa (I Loves You Mole)
- 4Salsa Fría (Cold Salsa)
- 5We Under This Blue Forever
- 6Two Themes by a Man and His Son
- 7Finally, Fios Is Home
- 8Gloria
- 9Downstairs Room, West Hollywood
- 10Los Ángeles Sobre España (The Angels Over Spain)
- 11Fiends Forever
- 12La Torcida (The Crooked One)
- 13Salsa Fría (Reprise)
- 14The Planets
- 15A Shot Heard 'Round The World
- 16Eggs & Coffee
- 17Milo
- 18I Never Promised You That
- 19First Wish (Take 1)
- 20Salsa Fría (Triste Finale)
- 21The Star
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Peanut Ballads For A Lone Star is a collection of 21 short musical pieces by Otro, originally composed as film cues — a body of work defined by its brevity, vulnerability, and lingering sense of unease.
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Artist Statement:
The music studio, a typical environment for music recording, is seldom a dangerous one. Ego’s might be compromised in creative decisions —or rather decisions that pretend to be creative—. Ideas left out, decisions revoked, entire dreams, mythical visions of glory and fame dismissed by the next bigger Big Bloated Person in the room.
Royalties. Percents.
But what is this junk, sitcom-pitch, pathetic male drama compared to the danger that oozes from the Law? Could we even begin to compare it to the physical violence that the supposedly illegitimate occupation of one form or another of real estate could propitiate? Death?
This question is somehow imperfectly embodied in Peanut Ballads for a Lone Star, because it is precisely its story. The album was made in one clandestine night session in a professional recording studio in an undisclosed location in peninsular Spain. The shakiness in the performances, the panting breaths, the distant rumble of his hunters stomping down the hallways and echo chambers, the unsettling quietude of night, all work as the acoustic environments to 21 short cues originally written for a cursed film. That film was destroyed in an explosion several years back, leaving me with a real bad —almost psychotic— case of writer’s block that led me to sneak up into this music studio after studying its security, recording equipment, employees, owners, cleaning schedules, etc. for almost a year.
Impunity has never felt more like a miracle.
But of course, there is a certain disappointment for the unconsummated prey. Hence this album, hence this story. Hence waking up in the middle of almost every night, eyes and hands wide open, holding not a single fibre of fear. A peculiar greenish glow completely bathing the room. Eyes fixed against an unfamiliar wall. Still dreaming so sweetly of being hunted down just one last time.
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releases February 13, 2026
Guitars, vocals, cooing, pump organ, concertina, piano, violin, MIDI programming, sampling, tongue drum, music box, modular synthesiser, uke-bass & drums by Aaron Morris
Humming and sampling on track 15 by Rebe
Mixed and mastered by Aaron Morris
Cover artwork and photography by Rebe
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Artist Statement:
The music studio, a typical environment for music recording, is seldom a dangerous one. Ego’s might be compromised in creative decisions —or rather decisions that pretend to be creative—. Ideas left out, decisions revoked, entire dreams, mythical visions of glory and fame dismissed by the next bigger Big Bloated Person in the room.
Royalties. Percents.
But what is this junk, sitcom-pitch, pathetic male drama compared to the danger that oozes from the Law? Could we even begin to compare it to the physical violence that the supposedly illegitimate occupation of one form or another of real estate could propitiate? Death?
This question is somehow imperfectly embodied in Peanut Ballads for a Lone Star, because it is precisely its story. The album was made in one clandestine night session in a professional recording studio in an undisclosed location in peninsular Spain. The shakiness in the performances, the panting breaths, the distant rumble of his hunters stomping down the hallways and echo chambers, the unsettling quietude of night, all work as the acoustic environments to 21 short cues originally written for a cursed film. That film was destroyed in an explosion several years back, leaving me with a real bad —almost psychotic— case of writer’s block that led me to sneak up into this music studio after studying its security, recording equipment, employees, owners, cleaning schedules, etc. for almost a year.
Impunity has never felt more like a miracle.
But of course, there is a certain disappointment for the unconsummated prey. Hence this album, hence this story. Hence waking up in the middle of almost every night, eyes and hands wide open, holding not a single fibre of fear. A peculiar greenish glow completely bathing the room. Eyes fixed against an unfamiliar wall. Still dreaming so sweetly of being hunted down just one last time.
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releases February 13, 2026
Guitars, vocals, cooing, pump organ, concertina, piano, violin, MIDI programming, sampling, tongue drum, music box, modular synthesiser, uke-bass & drums by Aaron Morris
Humming and sampling on track 15 by Rebe
Mixed and mastered by Aaron Morris
Cover artwork and photography by Rebe
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