country music
[MP3] Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (Remix) Feat. Billy Ray Cyrus
We are obsessed with this song! Yeah its gimmicky af but this remix is awesome. Ultimate revenge on Billboard?
Previously on the Kitchen:
– Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (I Got The Horses In The Back) / Banzup [MP3]
[MP3] Lil Nas X – Old Town Road (I Got The Horses In The Back) / Banzup
Country-trap??!
Related:
Labels Sparring Over Rapper Lil Nas X As ‘Old Town Road’ Rakes In Streams (Billboard)
Hit the jump for a slightly more traditional sounding and more recently-released trap track by X.
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 21. Great Lake Swimmers – New Wild Everywhere
Heard this group’s name for while but never really knew much about them or their music. I finally got to hear the music because they headlined a show that Cold Specks opened for them on a few weeks back. Truth be told, I really went to see Cold Specks who blew me away live pretty much just as much, if not more than, she did on record. I stayed for a few songs of GLS’s set but ended up cutting out early, maybe about five songs in. Not that they’re wack but the prospect of yet another album of country/folk-tinged indie pop had me feeling the same way just a few songs into this album. I stuck it out for two runs through but this is just not my thing.
[album stream via AUX-TV]
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 7. The Barr Brothers – The Barr Brothers
Part of the delay I had in reviewing this and the Bahamas album which are next to each other on the page of Long List nominees was that I had a bit of a problem distinguishing one from the other when I played them.
I guess after multiple listen to both I would say this album more of an overtly Americana (Canadiana??) feel musically and vocally it has more in the way of harmonies courtesy of group members and brothers, Brad and Andrew Barr and the occasional guest vocals.
This is not the kind of album I tend to listen to or get excited about in general unless the songs are really exceptional or transcendent which they may be for connoisseurs of this style of music but not for me although for some reason I really dug “Give the Devil Back His Heart” with it’s very 70s era Who-like breakdown section. Dig what you heard in the sampler above though? Then hit the jump for a full album stream player via Paste magazine.
A Look at the Polaris Long List: 28. Lindi Ortega – Little Red Boots
This is more purely ‘alt. country’ (whatever that amorphous term actually really means) than that Rose Cousins album I posted last night. I’m not really much of a country music fan but Lindi has a helluva voice. From my point of view Polaris jurors tend to get it confused and think a deserving Polaris Music Prize album winner has to be ‘progressive’ sounding or boundary breaking. I take the prize organizers at their word and think an album just has to sound insanely great. By that measure, while Little Red Boots might sound like a niche or genre record, I’d say it more than qualifies for serious consideration. Does that mean it will be a contender though? I’d say it’s tough to call. Ya dig that sampler above though? Then hit the jump for the full album via RDIO (snippets only for non-RDIO subscribers).