I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away
by Hayden Pedigo
- Type: Album
- Released: June聽6,聽2025
- Label: Mexican Summer
- Country: United States
- Length: 28:50
- Community rating: 3.5/5 from 12 ratings
Artists on this release: Nicole Lawrence, Scott Hirsch, Nathan Bieber, Jens Kuross
Album Notes & Community Reviews
On 'I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away', Hayden Pedigo concludes his 'Motor Trilogy' with compositions centered on his precise and intricate American Primitivist fingerstyle guitar work. The album fuses this core with lush, cinematic arrangements, as producer Scott Hirsch and other collaborators add layers of pedal steel, synthesizer, piano, and sweeping string sections, creating what has been described as a pastoral or micro-dose psychedelic sound. Exploring themes of departure and melancholy, the eight instrumental tracks balance a meticulously crafted, dreamlike quality with imaginative flourishes and a poignant, hauntological atmosphere.
Genres
Descriptors: atmospheric, folk, acoustic, instrumental, minimal, ambient, guitars, organic
Tracklist
- Long Pond Lily (4:26)
- All the Way Across (4:26)
- Smoked (5:18)
- Houndstooth (3:52)
- Hermes (3:40)
- Small Torch (3:22)
- I'll Be Waving As You Drive Away (3:46)
Credits
- Hayden Pedigo - acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric piano, arrangements
- Scott Hirsch - production, recording, mixing, bass, synthesizer, ebow guitar, cymbals, arrangements
- Nathan Bieber - violin, string arrangements
- Jens Kuross - piano on "all the way across"
- Nicole Lawrence - pedal steel on "ill be waving as you drive away"
- Noah Kittinger - strings recording and engineering
- Stephan Mathieu - mastering
- Jonathan Phillips - album cover painting
- Ryan Giesbrecht - back cover photo
- Alex Tults - layout, design