Simpson's "Metamodern Sounds" coming back
Friday, April 5, 2024 – Sturgill Simpson's landmark 2014 album, "Metamodern Sounds In Country Music," will be reissued in celebration of its 10-year anniversary on May 10.
Originally released May 13, 2014, the album marked a career breakthrough for Simpson personally as a traditional country album, which set the stage for other artists down the road.
The new special edition features a fully reimagined album cover and vinyl package, pressed on 180g black vinyl.
Recorded live-to-tape in four dates, the album features Simpson alongside his original band — bassist Kevin Black, guitarist Laur Joamets and drummer Miles Miller.
Simpson said in 2014, "Myriad worldly offerings—religion, drugs and more all claim to be the omnipotent universal truth, but in my experience, love is the only certainty. That's what this record is about."
More news for Sturgill Simpson
- 06/05/24: Simpson, aka Johnny Blue Skies, surfaces with new disc, tour
- 05/10/24: Kelley, McCreery, Peck release new music
- 04/23/24: Simpson headlines Outside Lands
- 08/20/21: Wanda Jackson, Simpson, McMurtry, Booth, Williams lead new releases
- 07/21/21: Simpson plans on concept album
- 05/24/21: Simpson, Price, Shovels & Rope join MerleFest
- 12/11/20: Simpson, King dish out new releases
- 10/13/20: Simpson goes bluegrass
CD reviews for Sturgill Simpson
Anybody that believes you can have too much of a good thing, obviously hasn't listened to Sturgill Simpson's "Cuttin' Grass" collections, volumes one and two. Volume one contains a plentiful 20 songs, and it's a hoot and a holler – start to finish.
Simpson's point of view is complicated. He sounds just as natural singing about God, as he does on "All Around You," as he does while traveling down that highway to hell with "Railroad of Sin. ...
If scratching your head about the sounds emanating from Sturgill Simpson's third release, then "It Ain't All Flowers" from his last release, the excellent "Metamodern Sounds in Country Music," ought to serve as a reference point. In a disc filled with traditional country sounds, "Flowers" was about as far away as one could get with the electronics sounding so completely disjointed from everything else on the release. Put it this way - " Islands" ...
The first time you hear Sturgill sing you may feel like you've heard a ghost - the ghost of Waylon Jennings, that is. Although his voice isn't as low as Jennings' was, it's nevertheless still in the same general vocal range ballpark. Better still, the Kentucky native sings wonderfully honest country songs. "Life of Sin," for instance, is a song about, well, sinning, which is really some of what great country is all about.
Yes, most of this album will do a ...
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