View basket “Easy Rider: The Best Of The Mercury Recordings” has been added to your basket. Sound From Out The Window Evan Wright SKU: SOL28LP Barcode: 0653467393163 22.00 £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Solitaire Released Date: 18th February 2022 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Evan Wright’s debut full-length album Sound from out the Window is a shimmering collection of country-tinged indie psychedelia. Recorded, mixed, performed, produced by Wright, the New Jersey-born, New York-based songwriter crafts a self-contained world, both nostalgic and stressed out, a personal and deeply compelling work that continually reveals itself with each listen. Recorded partially in Wright’s New York apartment before Covid caused him to decamp to his parents’ barn in New Jersey for quarantine, Sound from out the Window is the work of a consummate craftsman, fully in control of his sonic arsenal. “I always enjoyed recording and doing everything by myself,” says Wright. “It gives me a chance to learn something new. Every time I write and record and makes it feel like the music is completely my own.” This determination to create something truly personal led Wright to play every instrument on the record. It also led to a lot of experimentation. “I became really obsessed with manipulating sounds using cassettes and tape,” says Wright. “I also began reamping a lot of instruments, including my voice.” The results form a nuance and strangely-textured album, with unrecognizable sounds flitting in and out of the background, like the indie western movie soundtrack of your dreams. Electronic and acoustic guitars meld with synth lines with Wright’s half-whispered croon anchoring the music throughout. Album opener “People” is a melancholic stroll through nostalgia, a pained longing for past times that can never come back. “Oh what’s the good in that?” sings Wright. “To know you can’t go back.” The song begins with acoustic guitar and bass over a steady drumbeat that gives way to a surprise harpsichord riff, with reversed guitars and a piano doubling the vocal melody. Every element finds its exact place in the mix, all of it working together, never overwhelming the song.” For a song about good times gone, however, it refuses to wallow or indulge in self-pity. There’s a joy to the sadness, a gratitude that the good times happened at all, and a hope for better things coming in the future. As Wright sings toward the end, “In your heart/Now’s the time to restart.” “IDM” is one of the most immediate songs on the record, an anthem of detachment inspired by everyday frustrations. “One day I was taking the train that was so delayed,” says Wright. “And while everyone was losing it, I decided I was going to not let it bother me and finish the lyrics.” Featuring backing vocals from Alyssa McDoom, the chorus is a repetition of the phrase “I don’t mind,” and you can feel the calm assurance in Wright’s voice, the attempt to not let outside things over which he has no control dictate his emotions. “I sit and wait ‘cause I have nowhere to be,” sings Wright. “I can’t be late if I’m just waiting on me.” The centerpiece of the album is “Turn the Other Way.” Among Wright’s warmest and most upbeat songs, it finds his voice louder and more forceful above an insistent electronic drum beat, the chorus a catchy repetition over swirling psychedelics. “I made this beat in my drum machine and just started playing along on a twelve-string guitar and recording myself and that’s when I came up with the verse,” says Wright. “I remember going to see old friends and listening to the verse I had recorded on my phone. I think that after seeing my friends who I haven’t seen in so long and seeing us all in wildly different points in life, the chorus came pretty quickly.” The lyrics paint a picture of the ineluctable changes a friendship goes through, the way people you’ve known all your life can suddenly seem like strangers. “Why do people change? Why do people go?” sings Wright. But there’s an acceptance to the song, a desire to be at peace with things. “Turn the other way/Learn to let it go.” The lush, acoustic “Ride” closes the album on a somber but hopeful note. The music was written quickly on a trip to Florida with the guitars recorded to cassette on a four-track in Wright’s apartment. “I was thinking about how many times I talk about doing something or going somewhere but never do,” he says. “I was wondering what I was waiting for.” The song is one of the quietest and most affecting on the record. Though more folk-country and minimalist than the rest of the album, it maintains Wright’s penchant for surprising sounds, with warped electric guitars sliding in and out of the mix, and drums coming in for the last chorus. “Gonna ride away/To another day,” sings Wright, already set on a new direction, endless possibilities waiting just on down the road Artist Evan Wright Genre Americana / Country Label Solitaire Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings People IDM Just a Sign Turn the Other Way Sound from Out the Window Change Morning Lights On the Line Ride Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Americana / Country View Product Quick View Johnny Cash Blood Sweat & Tears Americana / Country | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 23rd June 2014 £20.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Johnny Cash Blood Sweat & Tears £20.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1062 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 23rd June 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Indigo Girls Indigo Girls Americana / Country | Music On Vinyl | 180g, 1LP Released 1st July 2016 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Indigo Girls Indigo Girls £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Music On Vinyl SKU: MOVLP1646 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 1st July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Charlie Rich Lonely Weekends Americana / Country | Sundazed | 180g, 1LP Released 23rd July 2016 £28.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Charlie Rich Lonely Weekends £28.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sundazed SKU: SUNDAZEDLP5203 Formats: 180g, 1LP Released Date: 23rd July 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Robert Earl Keen A Bigger Piece Of Sky Americana / Country | Dualtone | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 6th December 2018 £27.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Robert Earl Keen A Bigger Piece Of Sky £27.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Dualtone SKU: ADUA1888 Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 6th December 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Bill Callahan (Smog) Apocalypse Americana / Country | Drag City | 1LP Released 19th April 2011 £15.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Bill Callahan (Smog) Apocalypse £15.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Drag City SKU: DC450 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 19th April 2011 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Hank Williams Only Mother’s Best Americana / Country | BMG | 3LP Released 22nd November 2019 £32.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Hank Williams Only Mother’s Best £32.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: BMG SKU: 4050538514988 Formats: 3LP Released Date: 22nd November 2019 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Chicks, The The Essential Chicks Americana / Country | Sony Music | 2LP Released 12th November 2021 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chicks, The The Essential Chicks £23.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Sony Music SKU: 19439804701 Formats: 2LP Released Date: 12th November 2021 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Waylon Jennings The Lost Nashville Sessions Americana / Country | Country Rewind Records | 1LP, Includes Download Code Released 1st September 2016 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Waylon Jennings The Lost Nashville Sessions £22.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Country Rewind Records SKU: CRRX207LP Formats: 1LP, Includes Download Code Released Date: 1st September 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Micah P Hinson at The British Broadcasting Corporation Americana / Country | Full Time Hobby | 1LP Released 30th March 2018 £21.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Micah P Hinson at The British Broadcasting Corporation £21.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Full Time Hobby SKU: FTH310LP Formats: 1LP Released Date: 30th March 2018 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear Skeleton Crew Americana / Country | Glassnote Records | 1LP Released 24th July 2015 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Madisen Ward And The Mama Bear Skeleton Crew £19.00 Genre: Americana / Country Label: Glassnote Records SKU: GLS017301 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 24th July 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Americana / Country Start again
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