We’ve known about this project for over a year now, but you know how it is with friends of friends, you report something early and you get bitched at.
Anyhow, actor/filmmaker Adam Goldberg’s (“2 Days in Paris,” “The Hebrew Hammer,” “Dazed and Confused”) music solo project, which goes under the name Landy, has been in the works for over a year now, but is finally ready with his new album Eros and Omissions, due on June 23. And we mean finally, because he’s been working on it on and off since 2002.
Produced by Earlimart’s Aaron Espinoza and featuring the Flaming Lips’ drummer and music savante Steven Drodz, he lists it on his myspace page as “Healing & EasyListening / Folk Rock / Melodramatic Popular Song,” to that we’d like to add summery Beach Boys-esque ’70s AM pop and you basically have a good idea of what it sounds like. Goldberg befriended the Flaming Lips over the years during their long-in-the making “Christmas On Mars,” surrealist film which he appeared in.
EW talked to him today. Asked whether the band name was a reference to Brian Wilson’s famed and notoriously manipulative psychologist Eugene Landy, Goldberg coyly responds, “Well, I’m not going to refute that. I’ll just say it’s subject to interpretation.”
He also spoke about Joaquin Phoenix’s hip-hop career. “It’s not [real and is a prank] then it’s fucking genius. I mean, it’s really some of the most brilliant, Warholian, public exhibitionism I can think of in modern times. It’s amazing. The thing that strikes me as artificial about it is, I don’t really think [the music he would choose to do] would be hip-hop. That to me is the red flag. It just doesn’t quite add up. I mean, he’s a talented fucking guy. He sang in that movie. The guy’s got a real voice. It doesn’t make sense.”
The Landy album, subtitled, Sycophantastic Confessions & Renditions of Contrition, also features contributions by members of The Black Pine, Walter Cronkite, and more.
Here’s the first single, titled, “BFF.”
