Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY - Album Review

For my 1186th review, a jaded Sturgill Simpson delivers an enraged slice of killer, genre-bending but occasionally frustrating southern rock and synthwave.

Best Songs: 'Remember To Breathe', 'Sing Along', 'A Good Look', 'Mercury In Retrograde', 'Make Art Not Friends'
Worst Song: 'Fastest Horse In Town'

8/10

Want a specific review or help drive my schedule? Join the Patreon experiment: https://www.patreon.com/SpectrumPulse

Stream the album: https://open.spotify.com/album/2ITJBRqMwZ0luWBnnZQ4Hq

Buy the album: https://geo.music.apple.com/us/album/sound-fury/1476852029?mt=1&app=music&at=1000lsNQ

To skip my preamble, go to 1:55

Text review of 'SOUND & FURY': http://www.spectrum-pulse.ca/2019/09/album-review-sound-fury-by-sturgill.html

All Social Media: https://linktr.ee/spectrumpulse

My first ever full-length novel, 'To Kill A Dragon'! https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/to-kill-a-dragon

Special thanks to Infinity On Hannah for the outro video design - definitely check out the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsvR_Oun6NZvgXB7KZv9E9A

If you want to read the review in text, or check out any additional reviews I've done so far, go to http://www.spectrum-pulse.ca for more. Otherwise, be sure to like and subscribe for more!

Thanks for watching!

iTunes bio: When Sturgill Simpson took the stage to accept the Grammy for Best Country Album in February 2017 for the extraordinary A Sailor’s Guide to Earth, he was suffering from a sinus infection so severe it would require surgery and a long recovery in Los Angeles. “I got to lay out in California for about a month,” he tells Apple Music’s Zane Lowe. “They gave me all these Percocet and pain pills that I was not going to go anywhere near. So I just had my buddy Gino bring me a bunch of medical-strength edibles, and I laid in bed for about a week just high as giraffe balls, listening to all my old favorite records I hadn't listened to in decades.”

You’d be forgiven for assuming that Simpson spent that time revisiting albums by Waylon Jennings and Townes Van Zandt—the sort of purists and outlaws to whom he’s long been compared. But Simpson’s also shown himself to be a seeker, an artist whose vision and interests extend far beyond the traditional limits of country music, whether he’s referencing psychedelics, metaphysics, Kurt Cobain, or Elvis and The TCB Band. SOUND & FURY finds the Kentucky native not so much bucking narrative and post-Grammy expectations as taking a large flamethrower to them, with a set of thick, feverish, synth-lined Southern rock that gleefully bridges the gaps between ZZ Top, Black Sabbath, and La Roux. He’s a punk at heart: “I realized you can be a commodity and just making the same record over and over just to appease people and hope they show up and give a s**t,” he says. “Or you can just be a musician.”

Sturgill Simpson - SOUND & FURY - Southern rock / Synthwave / Funk Rock / Psychedelic Rock / Country - Album Review

#SpectrumPulse #SturgillSimpson #SOUNDANDFURY