Slow Hollows
Bullhead
Northern Transmissions 81点相当
今はソロのプロジェクトのようだが、
元々持っている声と雰囲気だけで
それなりのモノが出来上がってしまうタイプかも。
(初期2作あたりは、ちょっと録音の仕方が中途半端で
それが発揮されていないが)
https://northerntransmissions.com/slow-hollows-bullhead/
“My grandma calls stubborn people bullheaded and it always stuck with me: I really relate to that term.” That’s what LA’s Austin Feinstein says of his latest album under his moniker Slow Hollows, called appropriately Bullhead. With a recent amicable break up of his band, it took a certain amount of stick-to-it-iveness to keep his trajectory going, since his start as a teenager in 2013. It is nothing like his last record, Actors, a dance and disco influenced record that was a bit of a reinvention for the band. “Making a sonic shift towards the sound of early Slow Hollows records felt like something I needed to do for myself.”
The result is a record that is hushed and orchestral at the same time, something that has the understatedness of indie pioneers, Sebadoh, and reminds me as well of the melodic economy of Gary Lightbody’s Snow Patrol. “It’s time to go, a world is waiting,” he sings on the last track of the album, a particularly Elliot Smith sounding track. There is the play, on the record, between habit and routine and breaking out of it to live a meaningful life, even if you’ve got to be a bit stubborn or “bullheaded” to do that.
And yet, his perspective is honest in the things that concern him and hold him back. “I can’t afford a tragedy / One day at a time’s enough,” he sings on “Villain” with its moody and evocative string arrangement. That was my favorite part of the record: he’s an artist who is able to put into words some of my own hang ups and hopes, in compelling economical indie rock.
元々はバンドの体制だったが
現在は、AUSTIN FEINSTEINのソロ・プロジェクト
童顔なのかも
