Portland, Oregon-based songwriter/singer/guitarist Hutch Harris outlived The Thermals, and his previous solo LP Suck Up All The Oxygen was thematically quite dark, but on his new record Not Everyone is Loved there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel. Obviously this is relative, with lyrics multiple interpretable, as becomes clear in I Will Love Again (“I know I can heal // I know I will be stronger in time // If only in my mind”) and Why My Life is Over (“I can be just who I want // I can do just what I wish // Every day I live forever and // Every day I don’t exist”), or actually in all eight original songs here. They form a personal and relatable album that is musically very accessible, with uplifting melodies, and those distinctive vocals that captivate as always. I really hope and assume that closing track A Place is not a farewell letter (“I’m leaving the life I have loved for so long // I’m leaving the world which I know to be wrong”), because we want to hear much more from this great musician.
Not Everyone is Loved is out now digitally and on handmade limited edition CD via Royal We Publishing (BMI).
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