The Folk Implosion

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The Folk Implosion
Origin Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Genre(s) Lo-fi, Indie rock, Alternative Rock
Years active 1993–2004
Label(s) Chocolate Monk Records
Communion
Interscope
Domino USA
Members
Lou Barlow
Russ Pollard
Imaad Wasif
Former members
John Davis

The Folk Implosion was an American indie rock/lo-fi band founded in the early 1990s by Lou Barlow and John Davis. It was initially a side-project started by Barlow to explore different territory than that being canvassed with his primary band at the time, Sebadoh. The name is a play on the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.

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The band's status was relatively obscure prior to the Larry Clark film Kids, and its soundtrack, most of which were original compositions by Barlow and Davis. The song Natural One from this soundtrack was a hit single and reached # 30 on the charts. Though the band attempted to duplicate the success of that song, their subsequent albums and singles were nowhere near as successful as the Natural One single. After Davis left the band in 2000, Barlow recruited Russ Pollard and Imaad Wasif from the band Alaska! to record The New Folk Implosion. In 2002, the band appeared as the backing musicians for the main character played by Alessandro Nivola in the film Laurel Canyon. The band has not been active since 2004.

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[edit] Singles

  • Walk Through this World With the...7" (Drunken Fish)
  • "Natural One" (London, 1995)
  • Electric Idiot 7" (Ubik Records)
  • Palm of My Hand 7" (Communion Records)
  • The Folk Implosion (EP) (Communion Records, 1996)
  • Pole Position (Communion Records, 1997)
  • Insinuation (Communion Records, 1997)
  • Free to Go (Domino, 2000)
  • Brand of Skin 7" (Domino, 2003)
  • Pearl 7" (Domino, 2003)

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