Josh

The album officially releases on May 15th. The first single, “Going to A Town,” was released, along with a couple of teasers for other songs on the album on his website.

I think the whole album is amazing. I don’t even know how I would begin to explain it. It’s deep, thoughtful, and musically amazing. One of my favorite songs would be the first single.

Then there is the song Wainwright considers “a message from the collective subconscious of the world.” Titled “Going to a Town,” it’s addressed to us, a collective of people called America. With hurt in his voice and surrounded by plucking string players, he admits, “I’m so tired of America/I’m going to make up for all of the Sunday Times/I’m going to make it up for all of the nursery rhymes/They never seem to want to tell the truth.”

He wrote the song in two minutes, stopping himself before going out to dinner to beeline to a piano. He realizes this is his Dixie Chick moment. “When people say artists shouldn’t be political or ‘shut up and sing,’ the fact is, artists just write about events in their life and the world around them. And things that happen, like love and death and sex or whatever, at this point political disillusionment… is just another fact of life.

“I don’t think it’s a ‘fuck you America’ song. It’s more like, ‘I was in love with you once, everyone was in love with you, and you broke our heart.’” Read the entire article from Harp Magazine.

Track List (Coupled with my thoughts in some instances)

1. Do I Disappoint You - This is epic, both lyrically and musically.
2. Going To A Town
3. Tiergarten - This is more of a mellow sounding song then “Do I Disappoint You,” but all the same, it’s still a great song, with a melody that you’ll remember.
4. Nobody’s Off The Hook - A beautiful song, that’s soft on the vocal side, but still beautiful in any case.
5. Between My Legs - This is a more uptempo song, a bit deeper sounding in the vocal, and a bit more “pop” sounding then the rest of the songs.
6. Rules and Regulations - I hear that this is going to be the second single, but don’t quote me on that.
7. Not Ready To Love - Slow, smooth, sweet.
8. Slideshow - Starts off folky, but makes it’s way into one of those epic sounding songs.
9. Tulsa
10. Leaving for Paris No. 2 - It’s a beautiful song, but “Leaving for Paris” has been around for a bit, but a new verse pops up in the song making it “Leaving for Paris No. 2.”
11. Sanssouci - The lyrics are the strong point of the song.
12. Release the Stars

Stay tuned for my mixtape, it’ll have one of these songs on there.




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