Harpeth Trace

Just got the new album "Man and the Cousin" by a great new band called the Harpeth Trace. If you want to hear what music critics are looking for in new bands, listen to this album.

Here is my review of the album:

Silence. Lingering notes. Unpolished, sand paper voice.

Musicality. Three piece bands. Lyrics. Country roots.

Ode to Bowie and Dylan. Diversity. Originality. Rebellion.

These are the things I use to love about Rock n Roll and never thought I would hear again from an up and coming band; that is until I heard Man and the Cousin, by the Harpeth Trace. As a musical critic I have gone very cynical about the state of modern music:

Everything sounds the same, there is no originality.

Albums based on formulas and marketing instead of musicality.

Love of pro-tools and abandonment of instruments.

Yet in all of this negativity and sewage I still kept out hope because:

I knew people still listened to Dylan and Bowie.

I knew people still played their own instruments

I knew someone did not care what the music industry wanted.

So thank you Harpeth Trace for re-affirming my faith.

(I always wanted to incorporate my poetic techniques into a music review, and I think I finally succeeded.)