fuzzyville

fuzzyville is the new indie rock/americana project from los angeles native and portland-based neal weiss.

fuzzyville's debut album population: one is a collection of recordings discreetly made over the last decade-plus in spare rooms in culver city, ca and portland, or. written, produced and recorded almost entirely by weiss, population: one mashes together lo-fi indie rock, sonic dissonance, loose twang and folky strums into a unique take on love, life, yearning and restlessness.

weiss released two albums in the mid-2000s with his indie rock quartet Weed Patch to critical acclaim, a smidge of radio airplay and an la weekly music award nomination. With real life rearing its head, Weed Patch quietly faded away and weiss retreated to quiet corners to hone his songwriting, musical chops and recording capabilities.

fuzzyville is more than a return for weiss, but a culmination of years of focusing on and embracing artistic expression based greatly on coming to terms with his own capabilities, warts and all. as orson welles once said: "the absence of limitations is the enemy of art."

the project also finds weiss reframing his live shows. fuzzyville aspires to be a collective, welcoming musicians to join performances and take weiss's songs to unique sonic places. just as trequently, tuzzyville is just weiss as a one-man-gang — vocals, guitar, harmonica — delivering his unique songs in more intimate, yet plently visceral