Harborcoat - Brutal Gravity - CD
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Brutal Gravity is a series of impressionistic explorations and sketches examining the quiet desperation, darkness, and inertia that can lie underneath the veneer of the oft-romanticized life in small-town/rural America. It's a crushing heartbreaker of a record that still isn't totally devoid of hope. Anyone who spent their adolescence in a small town will find a person or a story on this record that is somehow familiar.
Those of us with depression or mental illness who grew up in that environment (whether the environment was a factor or not) will find something of themselves in the voice and perspective of these songs.
Harnessing a sonic vocabulary built on a steady diet of early R.E.M., Billy Bragg’s chronicles of the human condition and an aching for Laureal Canyon days gone by, Brutal Gravity began as a humble bedroom pop outlet and turned into a fully orchestrated debut album.
Matt Carlson’s songs on this first Harborcoat full length roll out in small vignettes of life in a fading Midwestern town set to buoyant and beautiful melodic backing. Isaac Vander Schuur’s co-production helps to lift the performances and pieces into a cohesive and beautiful long player.
TRACKLIST
1. Missing On The 4th Of July
2. Decades To Crest
3. All That I Need
4. The Ravines
5. Our Mistakes
6. Only Nineteen
7. High Water
8. Lot 148
9. Radioactive Me
10. One Soft Click
11. Nonsense I Mistook
12. Running To You
This page is for the CD version of this album. To buy a digital copy, please click HERE.
Brutal Gravity is a series of impressionistic explorations and sketches examining the quiet desperation, darkness, and inertia that can lie underneath the veneer of the oft-romanticized life in small-town/rural America. It's a crushing heartbreaker of a record that still isn't totally devoid of hope. Anyone who spent their adolescence in a small town will find a person or a story on this record that is somehow familiar.
Those of us with depression or mental illness who grew up in that environment (whether the environment was a factor or not) will find something of themselves in the voice and perspective of these songs.
Harnessing a sonic vocabulary built on a steady diet of early R.E.M., Billy Bragg’s chronicles of the human condition and an aching for Laureal Canyon days gone by, Brutal Gravity began as a humble bedroom pop outlet and turned into a fully orchestrated debut album.
Matt Carlson’s songs on this first Harborcoat full length roll out in small vignettes of life in a fading Midwestern town set to buoyant and beautiful melodic backing. Isaac Vander Schuur’s co-production helps to lift the performances and pieces into a cohesive and beautiful long player.
TRACKLIST
1. Missing On The 4th Of July
2. Decades To Crest
3. All That I Need
4. The Ravines
5. Our Mistakes
6. Only Nineteen
7. High Water
8. Lot 148
9. Radioactive Me
10. One Soft Click
11. Nonsense I Mistook
12. Running To You
This page is for the CD version of this album. To buy a digital copy, please click HERE.
Brutal Gravity is a series of impressionistic explorations and sketches examining the quiet desperation, darkness, and inertia that can lie underneath the veneer of the oft-romanticized life in small-town/rural America. It's a crushing heartbreaker of a record that still isn't totally devoid of hope. Anyone who spent their adolescence in a small town will find a person or a story on this record that is somehow familiar.
Those of us with depression or mental illness who grew up in that environment (whether the environment was a factor or not) will find something of themselves in the voice and perspective of these songs.
Harnessing a sonic vocabulary built on a steady diet of early R.E.M., Billy Bragg’s chronicles of the human condition and an aching for Laureal Canyon days gone by, Brutal Gravity began as a humble bedroom pop outlet and turned into a fully orchestrated debut album.
Matt Carlson’s songs on this first Harborcoat full length roll out in small vignettes of life in a fading Midwestern town set to buoyant and beautiful melodic backing. Isaac Vander Schuur’s co-production helps to lift the performances and pieces into a cohesive and beautiful long player.
TRACKLIST
1. Missing On The 4th Of July
2. Decades To Crest
3. All That I Need
4. The Ravines
5. Our Mistakes
6. Only Nineteen
7. High Water
8. Lot 148
9. Radioactive Me
10. One Soft Click
11. Nonsense I Mistook
12. Running To You