the Sturgill Simpson c/d

...based off his "Sleazy" new Rock album.

hence my befuddlement

https://www.whiskeyriff.com/2019/07/21/sturgill-simpson-announces-new-sleazy-steamy-rock-album-sound-fury-out-this-fall-along-with-anime-movie/

Disappointed my thread taking off of this one's title didn't, er, take off: The Margo Price c/d

All the DMT trips with Joe Rogan finally caught up with him.

wtf happened with this guy

― Οὖτις, Monday, July 22, 2019 9:24 AM (four hours ago)

idk exactly what's so befuddling, but i fully trust Stu's taste, vision, etc. looking forward to this.

will be interesting to see if he sits down for interviews with the big outlets. he swore them off forever at one point, iirc?

Ha ha, I think this is all awesome news. I went back to his most recent album not long ago and, while I could do without the Nirvana cover, the rest is this awesome country-psych-soul trip that I really dig. So can't wait to hear what he does next.

xpost Why did he swear off interviews?

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)