Valente, Robert
No Hype
Rare & Collectible Vinyl Records

Sealed 1979 Private Pressing. Tortured Loner/Downer Acoustic Folk Out Of Iowa City With The Highlights Being "Chain Gang" And "Looking For Blood." Valente Strums An Electric Guitar And, In His Haunting Voice – Lying Somewhere Between Jandek, Neil Young, And Will Oldham – He Sings A Variety Of Existential Songs That Alternate Between Sparse Two Chord Dirges And More Folky Pop Numbers. Sounds More Like Early 70s LA Coffeehouse Folk Than Anything That Could Have Come Out Of Iowa City In 1979. Has The Original No Hype $6.98 And Drug Fair Price Tags On The Shrink Wrap. Pristine Copy.