Den nye fra i år derimod: Honey Harper & the Infinite Sky. Der er skruet op for det kosmiske og det ballede - ned for indflydelsen fra hans dream pop band. Et lidt mere konservativt bud på moderne country, men ikke desto mindre mere i min smag. Hvis man får lyst til at blive bekræftet i, at man bare en en lemming der følger modelunerne, kan man lige svælge i den her sviner af en anmeldelse:
"It’s always the same. There comes a point when everyone wants to be taken seriously. Especially men. Men just love authenticity. They like everything hand-pumped and grass-fed. Nothing gets their balls jiggling like the idea of a bunch of dudes in a room rocking out and recording direct to tape.
You can always tell when masculinity is in a crisis because men everywhere start growing beards and taking up manly pursuits like archery and leather-working. Heading out into the woods with a tent and a tin of beans. Wearing gorpcore and raw denim and getting stick and poke tattoos.
Cosmic country is a similar pursuit. It’s basically just bouldering but with guitars. It’s men looking back to a time when masculinity felt less under threat and a little bit more stable; a time when “men could be men”. In country music that time is usually the 1970s, which is coincidentally also the era that everyone looks back to when they’re trying to be “futuristic”. It’s odd how often people talk about wildly reinventing country but just come out of the studio with a record that sounds a bit like Kevin Morby.
The thing is, I know everyone will love Honey Harper and The Infinite Sky and I completely understand what they’ll love about it too. It’s a grand, ambitious album that delivers on its lofty aspirations of being an artsy take on Americana. It’s musically brilliant and accomplished and clever. It’ll sit perfectly in your collection alongside your Wayfaring Strangers compilations and your worn-out copy of Workingman’s Dead".
https://holler.country/reviews/album-re ... finite-sky
Tjek, tjek, tjek og tjek. I take a lot of pride in what i am, som Merle ville have sagt. En parodi på en rigtig mand fra 70erne
Ikke desto mindre: Pladen er altså god. Helt klart et lyt værd.
https://open.spotify.com/album/400XedHA ... 0wjW3YZT3g
