Holy fucking shitfire. The first post in months and it's about an album?
(Side note primus: My life has pretty been suck and broke, mostly in tandem for months.)
I managed to drunkenly blunder up on and over Valerie June's "Pushin' Against a Stone" the other night when I was feeling sorry for myself (you know what sucks more than feeling sorry for yourself when you're drunk? Feeling sorry for yourself when you're sober and watching SVU on mute and eating crappy microwaved popcorn and still thankful you have the electricity to microwave anything).
In any case, this is one hell of an album. It reminds me of: The Cowboy Junkies, Mazzy Star, Liz Phair, Portishead, Goldfrapp, and Sharon Jones. It's twangy. It's super Soul. It's a make-out album. It's a break-out album. It's fucking brilliant. It flows and transitions smoother than a hand down a silk clad thigh. It's a kitchen album.
There's a fucking guitar riff on the title track which reminds me of Cream but then track that follows ("Trials, Troubles, and Tribulations") is as good as any track off of Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story" (well...almost).
(Side note primus: My life has pretty been suck and broke, mostly in tandem for months.)
I managed to drunkenly blunder up on and over Valerie June's "Pushin' Against a Stone" the other night when I was feeling sorry for myself (you know what sucks more than feeling sorry for yourself when you're drunk? Feeling sorry for yourself when you're sober and watching SVU on mute and eating crappy microwaved popcorn and still thankful you have the electricity to microwave anything).
In any case, this is one hell of an album. It reminds me of: The Cowboy Junkies, Mazzy Star, Liz Phair, Portishead, Goldfrapp, and Sharon Jones. It's twangy. It's super Soul. It's a make-out album. It's a break-out album. It's fucking brilliant. It flows and transitions smoother than a hand down a silk clad thigh. It's a kitchen album.
There's a fucking guitar riff on the title track which reminds me of Cream but then track that follows ("Trials, Troubles, and Tribulations") is as good as any track off of Stewart's "Every Picture Tells a Story" (well...almost).
She's got some burn.
A hell of an album by a woman with one hell of a voice. I've got her on heavy rotation, you should too.
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