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Artist | Jake Bugg
Title | Hearts That Strain
Genre | Indie Format | Album
Source | CDDA Time | 35:54
Label | Virgin Records Store | 2017
Catalog | CDVX 3192 Rip | 2017
Bitrate | 238 kbps Size | 64.29 MB
Freq | 44.1 kHz Encoder | Lame 3.98.4
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01. How Soon The Dawn 2:48
02. Southern Rain 3:54
03. In The Event Of My Demise 2:54
04. This Time 3:15
05. Waiting (Feat. Noah Cyrus) 3:11
06. The Man On Stage 3:17
07. Hearts That Strain 3:34
08. Burn Alone 2:40
09. Indigo Blue 3:28
10. Bigger Lover 2:56
11. Every Colour In The World 3:57
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Raised on a steady diet of The Beatles, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, and the
brothers Gallagher, English singer/songwriter Jake Bugg blends the
melodious, working-class swagger of the La's and the primal, bluesy
simplicity of The White Stripes with the wry, weathered romanticism of Jens
Lekman. Born in Nottingham, Bugg picked up the guitar at the age of 12, and
within a year he was composing his own songs. Disinterested in the hip-hop
and grime that dominated the listening habits of his peers, he turned to
the classics for inspiration.
Bugg sidesteps the electronic textures of 2016's "On My One" and settles
comfortably into a vintage 60's and 70's AM pop vibe on his lyrical fourth
studio album, 2017's "Hearts That Strain". Having burst onto the scene in
2011 as a preternaturally gifted teen singer/guitarist with a knack for
balancing Bob Dylan-style folk musings with a rootsy, Lead Belly-esque
acoustic blues twang, Bugg has only matured in the years since. On albums
prior to the aberrant, contemporary-leaning "On My One", Bugg always
sounded like he was born into the wrong decade. For fans of
vintage-inspired folk and blues, that was a good thing, and those same fans
will probably find much to enjoy here.
Recorded in Nashville with The Black Keys' Dan Auerbach producing, "Hearts
That Strain" is an organically crafted, immaculately arranged set of
original songs that all sound like they easily could have been recorded at
Olympic Studios in 1970. These are languid, poetic compositions, largely
inspired by the melodic, Americana-informed pop of 60's songwriters like
Jimmy Webb and Lee Hazlewood. Cuts like the breezy "How Soon The Dawn" and
the rambling country piano tune "Southern Rain" showcase Bugg's sweet,
half-lidded croon. They sound like a charmingly preposterous and in all
ways delightful amalgam of the 70's soft rock outfit America and the
British Invasion melodicism of Gerry & The Pacemakers - a happy accident of
Bugg's collaborative efforts with Auerbach.
Whether this is the definitive sound Bugg will stick with or just a product
of him working through his influences, the results ring true. Auerbach
certainly knows how to evince that old-school studio atmosphere, draping
Bugg in goosebumpy strings on the dramatic ballad "The Man On Stage" and
conjuring his own brand of the Phil Spector Wall of Sound on the Walker
Brothers-esque "Bigger Lover". Bugg and Auerbach also highlight the
Nashville milieu of the sessions, bringing on board Noah Cyrus (Miley's
younger sister) for the grand country-soul duet "Waiting".
What's great about Bugg and Auerbach's backward-looking vibe is that, even
though they nail the period aesthetic, the album never comes off as a
slavish museum piece. It feels instead as if they somehow rediscovered this
sound, like an old coat picked out of the attic that looks as perfect with
a modern ensemble as it did in its own heyday.
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