Styrofoam Winos
Any River
76点相当 Pitchfork
個人的には、出ている点数以上にいいと思うのだけど
好みかな。
アメリカ・テネシーのインディーバンド
Styrofoam Winos are the antidote to supergroups. Lou Turner, Trevor Nikrant, and Joe Kenkel are three multi-instrumentalists and songwriters who rolled together like the fluff in a tramp’s pocket, they met while working in a now-defunct market and cafe in Nashville. After years of jamming and collaborative songwriting, they released a self-titled debut in 2021 and a follow-up, Real Time, in 2024. Both records were full of endearingly haphazard arrangements, winning country melodies and sharp songwriting. Any River (June 19th, 2026, on Dear Life Records) is more of the same, but better.
You can tell a bit about them by the company they keep: songwriter and Friendship drummer Michael Cormier-O’Leary is an admirer, as is Will Oldham, and the various band members have toured with Ryan Davis and MJ Lenderman. That gives you some clues about their sound: you might expect ragged but literate Americana, tall tales told in a drunken drawl, lo-fi sensibilities and high ideals. You’d be right, partly. But what the Winos can also do, as Lenderman has said, is boogie. Any River’s perky opener Pearls kicks things off with a smart, surprisingly slick guitar line and goes on to describe the American pearl industry in oddly specific geographical detail. The guitar hits raspier and rougher patches as the song progresses, but the rhythm section remains crisp and tight.
