Two years after Boy Golden’s amazing debut LP debut album Church of Better Daze, which you could see as a kind of concept album, Liam Duncan and his friends have now released new EP For Jimmy. Although their golden rules to live by don’t seem to have changed (“Follow your heart // Make good art // Call your momma // Work real hard”), the six fresh tracks are literally and figuratively about a different journey: “I left who I was in them Blue Hills // Found myself heading out East” (from Mountain Road). Musically they have moved much more towards alt-country and psych-folk, lyrically it’s a bit more mature and vulnerable, although they nuance that themselves (“Every day it gets a little bit more clear // In the rearview, closer than it appears // I tried to write a song that feels sincere but oh // It gets so hard to make a point when you just don’t care” – from Hard Headed), but this makes you realize all the more how well it is put together.
For Jimmy, produced by Liam Duncan, Fontine Beavis, Austin Parachoniak, Roman Clarke, Kris Ulrich and Corey Hykawy, is out now digitally, on CD and vinyl LP through Six Shooter Records.
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