A Thousand Horses-Southernality-CD-FLAC-2015-FORSAKEN
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Artist : A Thousand Horses
Album : Southernality
Label : Republic Nashville
Genre : Country
Source : CD
Street Date : 2015-06-09
Quality : 976 kbps / 44.1kHz / 2 channels
Encoder : FLAC 1.2.1
Size : 337.61 MB
Time : 45:52 min
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1. First Time 4:39
2. Heaven Is Close 3:56
3. Smoke 3:40
4. Travelin’ Man 4:00
5. Tennessee Whiskey 3:23
6. Sunday Morning 3:34
7. Southernality 2:27
8. (This Ain’t No) Drunk Dial 3:30
9. Landslide 3:20
10. Back To Me 3:26
11. Trailer Trashed 2:45
12. Hell On My Heart 3:41
13. Where I’m Going 3:31
Southernality is the hotly anticipated debut album from South
Carolina’s A Thousand Horses. The pre-release single “Smoke” made
a long, steady run up various airplay charts to finally hit the
top spot, an anomaly for a debuting artist. Produced by Dave
Cobb, this 13-song set offers a smoother side of the group’s
fiery live persona that weds Southern rock to vintage Rolling
Stones and Black Crowes and stomping honky tonk. Southernality is
intentionally tempered by modern country’s pop tropes. And
there’s no foul there. It’s refreshing, actually. The band’s core
is frontman Michael Hobby, lead guitarist Bill Satcher, rhythm
guitarist/backing vocalist Zach Brown, and bassist/backing
vocalist Graham DeLoach. They are fleshed out on-stage by five
more pieces, including the excellent female vocal trio of Kristen
Rogers, Whitney Coleman, and Brianne Angarole, and here by more
studio players. The opening chords of “First Time” recall the
Stones’ intro to “Street Fighting Man” before cranking into a
bluesy rave-up. “Heaven Is Close” begins as a simple love song
with banjo, fiddle, and acoustic guitars offering a back-porch
feel, but power chords, a fat snare and thudding kick drum, and
gospelized female harmonies turn it into a Southern rocker. These
cuts contrast sharply with the hooky, string-swept, lushly
illustrated country-pop of “Smoke,” whose metaphor equates
unhealthy romantic obsession and tobacco addiction. “Sunday
Morning,” co-written with Rich Robinson, is a blustery love song
with a crying slide and sweeping gospel overtones that make it a
rock & roll hymn. Second single “(This Ain’t No) Drunk Dial” is
spirited pop-country with a distinct melodic hook and soaring,
singalong refrain. “Tennessee Whiskey” pretty much follows suit.
“Travelin’ Man” is a thoroughly revisioned take of the song that
appeared on A Thousand Horses’ eponymously titled EP in 2010.
“Landslide” pastes crunchy hard rock onto Southern R&B. “Back to
Me,” a thoroughly polished midtempo ballad, is the album’s
outlier. Unfortunately, it’s followed by “Trailer Trashed,” an
all too familiar swaggering party jam marred by handclaps so
massively compressed that they sound like drum loops. With its
kaleidoscopic hook, expertly crafted crescendos, and a startling,
in-the-round gospel backing chorus, “Hell on My Heart” could
easily be another single. Though it might contain an excess track
or two, Southernality is a fine debut. This band has been
carefully molded for chart success without sacrificing its
identity — or revealing it fully, either. This album, as
thoroughly enjoyable as it is, tells only part of the story. A
Thousand Horses need to be witnessed live to be fully
appreciated. It will be interesting to see what direction they
take in the future and if that aspect of their persona is
revealed on their records. For now, Southernality delivers on the
band’s modern country promise and warrants repeated listening.
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