Description
Seattle’s alt.country moodlords, set out to revisit the desert-gaze majesty of early albums such as 2006 debut Everything All The Time. That album which came out in 2006, sounding like the midpoint between My Morning Jacket’s reverberant roots-rock and The Shins’ helium-voiced pop. Since then, the band have released four more albums, each spilling over with crunchy-pretty guitars and Bridwell’s distinctive drawl and airy vocal melodies.
Now, Band of Horses are back with their sixth full-length, Things Are Great—a title seemingly dripping with sarcasm. Across the album’s 10 tracks, we find Bridwell singing about crying at work and refusing therapy, panic attacks and physical harm, hard times and steep climbs, wheels falling off and picking up the pieces. If this sounds like a devastatingly sad or worrisome album, well … it probably would be in the hands of, say, Sufjan Stevens. But 16 years after Everything All the Time revealed Bridwell’s gift for melodies that soar like they’re caught in a jet stream, Things Are Great proves he’s still got it.
