Old Money is the eighth studio album by American guitarist and composer Omar Rodríguez-López, his first with Stones Throw Records who released CD and MP3 versions on November 10, 2008, and a vinyl version in February 2009.Stones Throw Online Store Rodríguez-López explained that the album is "loosely based on the concept of exploitative industrialists and, well, their old money."
Rodriguez-Lopez has hinted that this record was a thematic sequel to the 2006 album Amputechture by his band The Mars Volta.
Review aggregate site Metacritic calculates a score of 70/100 for the album, but erroneously referred to it as "The debut album for the Mars Volta guitarist".
In the song "I Like Rockefellers' First Two Albums, But After That...", there is a dialog from the movie El Topo, from Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky.
Track listing
Release history Region Date Label Format United States November 10, 2008 Stones Throw Records MP3 United States November 21, 2008 Stones Throw Records CD United Kingdom January 26, 2009 Pinnacle CD United States January 27, 2009 Stones Throw Records CD (wide release) United States February 6, 2009 Stones Throw Records LP United Kingdom December 2023 Clouds Hill LP
Personnel Omar Rodríguez-López – guitars (except 2), synths (except 6, 8), bass (2, 4, 5), keys (2, 4, 7, 10), Wurlitzer (2), theremin (3), effects and TV (6), percussion (8) Juan Alderete – bass (1, 3, 7, 9, 10) Adrian Terrazas-Gonzalez – woodwinds (5), percussion (7) Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez – percussion (1, 4, 7, 9, 10), drums (5, 9, 10), synths (1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 10), clavinet and keys (10) Deantoni Parks – drums (1) Cedric Bixler-Zavala – drums (2) Jon Theodore – drums (3, 7)
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