Claiming albums as ‘favorites’ is always a tricky business. They can go from being the only thing worth spinning to being completely intolerable in less than a week. So, it’s with a heavy helping of hesitation that I offer up my ‘favorite’ (well, at least my favorite this week)…
Blitzen Trapper’s 4th album Furr is set for release on September 23rd (Sub Pop). Like its predecessors Furr spans the folk rock gamut with everything from lively jives to relaxed lullabies. Certainly, Blitzen Trapper has grown and perfected their sound, but it’s perhaps the immaculate cohesion of Furr that sets it apart.
Thematically and musically, the songs on Furr coalesce to achieve an album that effortlessly swells and tightens. Furr offers a refreshingly creative approach to life’s points of dissonance: youth vs. maturity, wild vs. civilized, roaming vs. settling. The lyrics weave stories of adventure and odyssey, worn boots and dusty trails- things from a different time. Or are they? Leave it to Blitzen Trapper to transform the seemingly irrelevant into something wholly relatable and reflective.
I once read somewhere that Blitzen Trapper was one of the hardest working bands around. If a cohesive, innovative, soulful, and stunning set of songs translates into hard work then I completely agree. Furr deserves the ‘favorite’ stamp, and it will easily outlast the week.
1 comment:
i LOVE the beards. if i had a motorless fishing boat i would float around in it listening to these beards.
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