-
Description
Nice Time on Earth Today, the third full-length release from the Oslo-based Norwegian American Sadgrass wonder-group Buster Sledge, runs the gamut of both American folk and popular music styles. Though in this way the musical backdrop is continuously shifting, the text is always up-front and delivered via a hummable melody. Moments of reckless abandon and maximalism explode through unexpected chord changes, grandiose arrangements and wild solos while the backdrop remains tightly knitted and controlled-but not too much of anything of course! Balancing aesthetics is core to the artistic agenda of this band. The title of the album captures with a tongue in the cheek the modus operandi of their lyrical style, a sort of bluegrass/folk-inspired dark humor and levity (e.g. sad lyrics in a happy-sounding song) where the narrator seems to be suffering but also to view themselves suffering with an ironic distance, let's call it stoic melancholicana, and ideally with leave you with a couple verbal and sonic things to reflect on.
Buster Sledge is an acoustic chamber-quartet of four voices, fiddle, banjo, guitar and contrabass fronted by a Californian living in Norway and backed by three Norwegians of diverse musical backgrounds, all with a shared love for traditional American music. The band creates a contemporary twist on music steeped in tradition through an original repertoire of music that brings the structure and pop-esque melodic focus of American old-time fiddle music as well as the lyrical meter and storytelling focus of old mountain-ballads and country songs together with modern harmonic and lyrical elements from rap, pop and jazz. These are some of the ways the group engages with the age-old tradition of recycling paraphrased archetypes into a new generation of expressions. -
Tracklisting
- 1. Way Too Pretty
- 2. Cold Wet Blanket
- 3. Last Day of the Worst Year
- 4. Saddle Up the Fence
- 5. Fall Like Crumbs
- 6. Warm and Stupid
- 7. New Sock
- 8. New Shoes
- 9. Charm the Gods That Made Us
- 10. Spring in her Step
- 11. Jesus Bugs
- 12. Endless Shiver
Disc 1
Side 1
-
-
Trad
Hoven Droven
- Regular
- from £10.99
- Sale
- from £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
Music Without Borders
Ferd
- Regular
- £10.99
- Sale
- £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
Live In Telemark
Lillebjorn Nilsen & Andy Irvine
- Regular
- £10.99
- Sale
- £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
Solvstrok
Sarah-Jane Summers & Juhani Silvola
- Regular
- £10.99
- Sale
- £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
Live
String Sisters
- Regular
- £11.99
- Sale
- £11.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
Aurum
Gjermund Larsen Trio
- Regular
- £10.99
- Sale
- £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
For Sola Skin' Pa Tak
Thomas Eriksson, Helga Myhr, Anna Malmstrom
- Regular
- £10.99
- Sale
- £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
Breibeint
Vegar Vardal & Asmund Reistad
- Regular
- £10.99
- Sale
- £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per
Call Home
Buster Sledge, Michael Barrett Donovan, Jakob Folke Ossum, Mikael Jonassen
- Regular
- from £10.99
- Sale
- from £10.99
- Regular
-
- Unit Price
- per