the wild hunt (the tallest man on earth)
This album has grown on me; I've owned it for several months but never really given it a concentrated listen. There's a metallic tang to this album- the brightly harsh strike of the guitars, the voice a high harsh croak, like a cold steel string. It's a rather minimalist album, mostly just guitar and voice, a genre that seems to be coming back into contemporary fashion; "lodge rock" as urban dictionary pegs it.
So many lovely melodies on this album: there's an endearing pitter-patter stumble in "The Wild Hunt," a beautiful sense of uplift in the one-on-one serenade "Burden of Tomorrow," a bouncy ramble to "You're Going Back," and a melancholy, regal beauty to the closer, "Kids on the Run"- it sounds a lot like something Springsteen would've made.
Every track runs from good to really good; it's all worth a relisten. Good stuff.
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