the Sturgill Simpson c/d

what's befuddling is he used to have good ideas, and now it seems like all he has are bad ideas

i fully trust Stu's taste, vision, etc.

Really? Even with a Netflix anime movie based on a "sleazy" rock album?

Trust is cool, but I just hope his taste and vision etcetera doesn't lead some of the more impressionable Stu-heads down a path towards full-on fedoras 'n swords.

impressionable Stu-heads down a path towards full-on fedoras 'n swords.

That seems an.... interesting leap. From what I've read, he recorded the album first and came up with the anime idea later, so I'm willing to give it a listen in good faith before assuming its a miss.

it's a pretty plausible leap when you're leaping from Joe Rogan and DMT

I honestly can't see or hear Joe Rogan's name without it immediately being followed in my head by "I smoke rocks"

Didn't he also contribute the titular song for that Jarmusch zombie flick?

new single is...interesting

did dan auerbach somehow get his grubby hands on our precious sturge?

the anime thing seems really stupid but I kinda like the song

i need to listen again to see if i can get past the black keys-iness of it all

halfway thru and this album sounds kind of like one of those kfc menu items that's designed to be so gimmicky that it generates its own free social media buzz

Dude's spent alot of time with Eliminator/Afterburner/Recycler.

Both of those things sound great!

I mean, that album cover!
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5b/Sturgill_Simpson_-_Sound_%26_Fury.png

he tries really hard

XP Yup. Covers Connected!

https://img.discogs.com/RpG-NjC5Y5tRPHuDcqmIE-3SM-M=/fit-in/300x300/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(40)/discogs-images/R-2848159-1413760716-9772.jpeg.jpg

Sturg could do a great cover of "Thug".

heard a song off this oof really bad like Black Keys pretending to be ZZ Top sounded awful like all those Black Keys records do

I haven't listened yet but I'm worried, since I heard the tail end of Sound Opinions yesterday, and both Jim *and* Greg were raving about it, and iirc Jim called it, and I paraphrase, the most radical country record since Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, which made me barf a little.

Guardian and Observer both reviewed the lp this weekend.
Don't remember noticing him before. Just listened to the first track of the lp described as psychedelic in friday's review and I think it's pretty awesome. Guitar is great anyway and vocals do seem to go back to traditional or at least outlaw country which si pretty great.
Must look into him further.

Guardian on Friday
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/26/sturgill-simpson-sound-fury-review-countrys-outlaw-catches-fire

Observer
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/29/sturgill-simpson-sound-and-fury-review-netflix-manga-film

It's the kind of record that will get great reviews and then be totally forgotten

I expect anyone who calls this a country record still thinks Taylor Swift is a country artist.

He's not playing in those fertile fields anymore.

https://i.imgur.com/VO5RLEP.jpg

my review of this album after listening to about 15 seconds: sounds like kings of leon and the mixing is shit

ice cold

I totally thought Kings of Leon too.

Finally listening, sounds okay to me, if maybe a little too 1990s. Would have been cool if he went totally radical and paid RZA to produce or something. Does sound like the sort of album to be totally missed or forgotten and rediscovered years later.

Yeah, I'm digging this, it's fun.

my review of this album after listening to about 15 seconds: sounds like kings of leon and the mixing is shit

Also I appreciate that he wants to lay down a groove or whatever but it feels like I’m being really n over by a train.

Does sound like a Fridmann production, even if it's not.

I can’t believe I had this much nostalgia for Don Felder’s theme for Heavy Metal, or that movie.

Well, yeah.

What is this it’s so bad.

Still think the best thing he ever did was his npr tiny desk concert

Oh man first impression this is bad but I feel the lure of the embarrassment creeping in... I'm soulseeking it.

This disco song "A Good Look", jeez...

This is bad.

watched the film today.
was weird how the end credits kick in, and then after them the so called story is finished, and yet there are visual references to how it ends within earlier sections.
basically, the timeline of the film is an absolute mess.

oh, and i thought i would be all over the music given the AP review, but nah, i've got zz top albums, i'm good.

That album cover looks very stoner rock.

It looks steinmanish, a gargoyle and a girl in ragged clothes wouldn't have looked out of place.

I have a feeling that in 20 years there will be people claiming this album was good.

Well, actually, there's people saying it right now (personally I'm still on the fence)

No need to wait, I've seen multiple people claiming its good right now! Haven't heard it myself yet, waiting for my copy to show up. Can't say I'm thrilled with what I've read about it so far but waiting to judge for myself. (xpost)

Haven't heard it yet, but is this album as bad as The Dead Don't Die? That was the biggest try hard failure of the year on film

Would make sense because he wrote the titular song that is referenced in the film way too many times.

I could see him releasing some de-lectrified of this in six months, just stripped-down versions of the same songs.

i don't think it's terrible, but it's clearly meant to be experienced live. maybe the songs wil lbe able to breathe if freed from the auerbach-aping production

He's recorded 2 albums of bluegrass versions of his tunes, releasing them this fall. Here he's playing them live forn the first time, i get extremely happy seeing this! Excited about those albums.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kO73im4J2sU&t=2390s

Looking fwd to those. He takes his record collection personally, maybe especially on this 'un, which made my Nashville Scene Top Ten---ballot comments:

i'm a sucker for gleaming pop-country, sez a fellow Marenite. Wal now, have you heard Sturgill's Sound and Fury yet? I just did, and right off, seems like this ZZ Rex electro-pop-boogie, sometimes also reminding me of Neil and the Trans Band (more the show tapes than studio album), might suit you too. It's much less windbaggy than I feared---and the non-pedantic retro detailing, commercial inclusiveness x righteous fencepost grievances x deserty-hot-cold broodiness, also that voice, keep it all country or countryoid. Also 'ppreciate how he keeps twisting the dial into another track at just the right moment, or close enough. It's another hard candy Christmas alright.

Cuttin' Grass is out now!